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大 学 英 语 English Lecture Notes of English Stylistics Chapter One Introduction I. Theoretic Background Course de Linguistique Generale by Ferdinand de Saussure laid the foundation of the modern linguistics. Précis de stylistique by Charles Bally, student of Ferdinand de Saussure, laid the foundation of stylistics. 1. Linguistic Theory of Ferdinand de Saussure two aspects of language study: diachronic study and synchronic study Langue and parole langue parole language system actual speech social individual abstract concrete essential accidental stable changable Syntacmatic and pragmatic relation so I’m very sorry to hear the news. awfully extremely Language is not substance but form Language is a social fact Language is a system of signs 2. Stylistic Theory of Charles Bally Difference and Development Langue and parole (focus on parole) Language is a social fact (put it in practice) development: natural effect and associative effect of language Points of View of Charles Bally Study Object: Charles Bally thought that stylistics should study the expressive ways of language users and the affective language elements Final Goal: Estalishment of Linguistics which study parole Linguistics studies how to express meaning in language denotative meaning language system Stylistics studies how to make language produce stylistics effects connotative meaning language in different social occasions In explaining what stylistics is, Charles Bally thought that language expresses both people’s ideas and emotions and stylistics doesn’t pursue the meanings but the explaination of communicative effects which constitute style. Linguistics studies the language function in communication and style is the product of the language communicative function. Language is a social fact because it reflects the language users’ age, profession, educational level and cultural background. In using language