San Pedro, Angeline Joyce M.

BSEd 2-E
ACTIVITY 1
Directions: Differentiate important terms and concepts on stylistics
– influences, style, meaning, contexts, devices, and means – through
a summary table.

Influences Language use

in ancient
Greece can
mainly be
considered as
an attempt to
create words.
Thus, in
political and
judicial
speeches we
can identify a
practical
function of
language and a
ceremonial
esthetic
function. The
aim was to
train people to
speak
effectively and
attractively.
The creation of
poetic works
 was another
language
activity.
Style Seymour
Chatman's
most frequent
definition of
style is: "Style
is the product
of different
choices and
choices
(emphasis
added)
between
linguistic
possibilities."."
Also, the style
of a language,
register
conventions or
other social,
political,
cultural and
contextual
parameters is a
motivated
choice.

Meaning The implication

of meaning is
then an equally
difficult task,
since it has to
move from the
continuum of
the stylistic and
 meaningful and
potentially
innovative
view of each
choice to the
adoption of
complex
conventions
and standards,
on the one
hand. Even
though this is
relatively
unmarked or
simple, all
utterances may
be
characterized
by a particular
structure or
style. But style
is a much
broader
notion, as
already stated.
Context Many great
minds have
observed
valuablely the
connectivity
between these
concepts. A
long list of
books deals
with this
problem
logically,
 psychologically,
philosophically,
esthetically,
pragmatically
and
linguistically
purely.

ACTIVITY 2
Directions: Choose a paragraph or a line from a famous classical text. Then,
identify the expressive means, stylistic devices, and functional means.

“But style (слог) — is talent itself, the very thought.”

Expressive meaning - Style is a language quality that communicates emotions or

thoughts accurately. Another point which is common in the above quotations is
that each of them focuses almost to the detriment of the content on the form of
expression. In other words, style is seen as an element that only extends to the
expression plane and not to the content plane.

Stylistic devices - - It's with style equipment. When you are born in the speech,
you are recognized as some structure patterns: phonetic, morphological, lexical,
phraseological and syntactic, and you are properly removed from your mother,
speaking and making independent families;

Functional means - The same applies to the problem of language functional

styles. Once it is known that the standard literary language is independent and
more or less closed, they should not be considered as speech styles but rather as
language styles, since these are patterns of how the component parts of each
style interact. In addition, these functional styles have been classified in several
ways, which shows that the phenomena now form part of the domain of language
as a systems.
 ACTIVITY 3
Directions: Write an analysis on a selected author’s purpose,
meaning, context, devices, techniques, and means across his texts.

An Impersonal Explanation/From the Art of Fiction:

Both Howell and James seem to stick to the style of realism, much like the
other authors from these two modules. Neither use dialogue or characters
as part of the experience, but much like the other stories they use the same
vocabulary. Both authors believe very strongly that there is a specific way to
write a good novel, and they both make this known throughout the
selections. However, their opinions differ a bit in how they think. Howell
says that writing should be “simple, natural, and honest”, while James
believes that “the deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality
of the mind of the producer”.