Stylistics of the English language

The book suggests the fundamentals of stylistic theory that outline such basic areas of research as expressive resources of the language, stylistic differentiation of vocabulary, varieties of the national language and sociolinguistic and pragmatic factors that determine functional styles.
The second chapter will take a student of English to the beginnings of stylistics in Greek and Roman schools of rhetoric and show how-much modern terminology and classifications of expressive means owe to rhetoric.

Chapter 1. The Object of Stylistics 9
Problems of stylistic research 9
Stylistics of language and speech 14
Types of stylistic research and branches of stylistics 16
Stylistics and other linguistic disciplines 19
Stylistic neutrality and stylistic colouring 20
Stylistic function notion 24
Practice Section 28
Chapter 2. Expressive Resources of the Language 33
Expressive means and stylistic devices 34
Different classifications of expressive means .... 37
Hellenistic Roman rhetoric system 39
Stylistic theory and classification of expresssive means by G. Leech 45