PART I INTRODUCTION
I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND Stylistics
2. EXPRESSIVE MEANS (EM) AND STYLISTIC DEVICES (SD)
3. GENERAL NOTES ON FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF LANGUAGE
4. VARIETIES OF LANGUAGE
5. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LITERARY (STANDARD) LANGUAGE
6. MEANING FROM A STYLISTIC POINT OF VIEW
PART II STYLISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
2. NEUTRAL, COMMON LITERARY AND COMMON COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY
3. SPECIAL LITERARY VOCABULARY
a) Terms
b) Poetic and Highly Literary Words
c) Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete Words
d) Barbarisms and Foreignisms
e) Literary Coinages (Including Nonce-Words)
4. SPECIAL COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY
a) Slang
b) Jargonisms
c) Professionalisms
d) Dialectal words
e) Vulgar words or vulgarisms
f) Colloquial coinages (words and meanings)
PART Ш PHONETIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
GENERAL NOTES
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Rhyme
Rhythm
PART IV LEXICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
A. INTENTIONAL MIXING OF THE STYLISTIC ASPECT OF WORDS
B. INTERACTION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF LEXICAL MEANING
1. INTERACTION OF PRIMARY DICTIONARY AND CONTEXTUALLY IMPOSED MEANINGS
Metaphor
Metonymy
Irony
3. INTERACTION OF LOGICAL AND EMOTIVE MEANINGS
Interjections and Exclamatory Words
The Epithet
Oxymoron
4. INTERACTION OF LOGICAL AND NOMINAL MEANINGS
Antonomasia
C. INTENSIFICATION OF A CERTAIN FEATURE OF A THING OR PHENOMENON
Simile
Periphrasis
Euphemism
Hyperbole
D. PECULIAR USE OF SET EXPRESSIONS
The Cliche
Proverbs and Sayings
Epigrams
Allusions
Decomposition of Set Phrases
PART V SYNTACTICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
B. PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE COMPOSITION OF SPANS OF UTTERANCE LARGER THAN THE SENTENCE
Supra-Phrasal Units
The Paragraph
C. COMPOSITIONAL PATTERNS OF SYNTACTICAL ARRANGEMENT
Stylistic Inversion
Detached Construction
Parallel Construction
Chiasmus (Reversed Parallel Construction)
Repetition
Enumeration
Suspense
Climax (Gradation)
Antithesis
D. PARTICULAR WAYS OF COMBINING PARTS OF THE UTTERANCE (LINKAGE)
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
The Gap- Sentence Link
E. PARTICULAR USE OF COLLOQUIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Ellipsis
Break-in-the-Narrative (Appsiopesis)
Question-in-the-Narrative
Represented Speech
a) Uttered Represented Speech
b) Unuttered or Inner Represented Speech
F. STYLISTIC USE OF STRUCTURAL MEANING
Rhetorical Questions
Litotes
PART VI FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
A. THE BELLES-LETTRES STYLE
1. LANGUAGE OF POETRY
a) Compositional Patterns of Rhythmical Arrangement
Metre and Line
The Stanza
Free Verse and Accented Verse
b) Lexical and Syntactical Features of Verse
2. EMOTIVE PROSE
3. LANGUAGE OF THE DRAMA
B. PUBLICISTS STYLE
1. ORATORY AND SPEECHES
2. THE ESSAY
3. JOURNALISTIC ARTICLES
C. NEWSPAPER STYLE
1. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
2. ADVERTISEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
3. THE HEADLINE
4. THE EDITORIAL
D. SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE
E. THE STYLE OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
FINAL REMARKS