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- Dictionarystylistics/stʌɪˈlɪstɪks/
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- 1. the study of the distinctive styles found in particular literary genres and in the works of individual writers.
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- Stylistics
Study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective
Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals and/or in different situations or settings. For example, the vernacular, or everyday language may be used among casua... Wikipedia
