Linguistics
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What is Stylistics? (Part II: Style and Stylistics)
Stylistics is traditionally approached through the “category of style”: Le regain d’intérêt dont bénéficie la stylistique n’a rien d’étonnant, dans la mesure où la catégorie du style est incontournable. Elle se trouve à la croisée de l’ensemble des sciences humaines : « Par style, on entend la forme constante – et parfois les éléments, les qualités et l’expression constants – Continue reading
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What is Stylistics? (Part I, Theoretical Framework: Language Stylistics and Literary Stylistics)
Due to its hybrid composition, stylistics is a discipline that is not easy to define. The first pages of the foreword and the initial title, “An Unfindable Definition”, from Introduction à la stylistique by Karl Cogard (2001: 7), highlight the breadth and complexity of the disciplinary field of stylistics. What are the components of stylistics? Continue reading
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Linguistic Notions: Dialogism
Dialogism is a key notion in linguistics (particularly in enunciative linguistics) and in discourse analysis. The notion of dialogism is subject to several competing theoretical approaches, and we will follow that of Jacques Bres, who defines dialogism as the constitutive orientation of discourse, at the principle of its production and reception, towards other discourses with Continue reading
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