STYLISTICSAIMS &

PERSPECTIVES by Mehwish Ali Khan.

1. This book is an exercise in applied stylistic analysis2. Its aim is to understand 3. How to study Literature and,4. How to teach Literature5. The approach towards studying and teaching literature relies

upon Linguistics

1. The writer suggests that stylistics is analyzing literature from the direction of linguistics

2. but converges or mixes with literary criticism at most of the points.

3. Stylistic analysis is important to the teaching of literature

1. Widdowson believes that stylistics is neither a subject nor a discipline

2. A discipline is a set of abilities, concepts, ways of thinking associated with a particular area of human inquiry.

3. Students do not study disciplines, they study subjects. The higher the education is in a specific subject, the closer it gets to the level of discipline.

4. Majority of learners will not reach to the level of discipline.5. Subjects are defined according to their teaching objectives. 6. Disciplines are defined according to their theoretical

requirements

WIDDOWSON DEFINES STYLISTICS AS 1. The study of literary discourse from a linguistics orientation2. Stylistics is different from literary criticism and linguistics

because it links both of them3. They are not treated autonomously here.4. Stylistics involves both.5. The morphology of the word stylistics suggests6. style as part of literary criticism and7. -istics as part of linguistics

1. Stylistics is a mediation between two disciplines linguistics and literary criticism,

2. It is also a mediation between English literature and English language3. Stylistics is neither a discipline nor a subject4. Literary critic looks at literature to interpret it and find the message

of the writer,5. Literary critic must be aware of language that he is studying6. Linguists also look at literature to find the message of the writer but

their focus is on the language, or on the codes.7. stylistics merges the aim of literary critic and linguist