LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 8 August 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Role of Stylistics in Learning English as a Second Language

Naushad Umarsharif Shaikh, M.A., B.Ed., Ph.D.

Abstract

Stylistics is an area of study that is growing and developing fast. Its central concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It, therefore, covers literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies. One of the types of stylistics, Pedagogical Stylistics, has proved to be very fruitful for learners.

The present paper focuses on the pragmatic functions of Stylistics, playing a vital role in learning, teaching and acquisition of English as second language. The paper also focuses on the history, functions and aim of Stylistics in L2 and its role in solving the problems faced in learning L2.

The paper concludes by stating the role of Stylistics in learning English as a second language and how it is practically helpful in acquiring the same.

Keywords: discourse, applied linguistics, second language, literary analysis, rhetoric discourse analysis, lingual problems.

Introduction

We may learn or acquire English as one of the languages from the same source/s but develop varying individual patterns and different choices of words and phrases. This is what makes a person a poet, novelist, an orator, or a famous literary figure. Ultimately, it is the individual's choice of words in speaking and writing which makes us speakers and writers with different structures of sentences and words.

Stylistics is a field of study that is growing and developing fast. Its inner concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It, therefore, encompasses literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Naushad Umarsharif Shaikh, M. A., B.Ed., Ph.D.
Department of English
King Abdulaziz University
Faculty of Science and Arts Khulais
Jeddah, PBO-80230
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
drnaushadumar@gmail.com
nushaikh@kau.edu.sa
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