Шаховский В.И. // Shakhovsky V.I. Стилистика английского языка // English Stylistics Изд. 2, стереотип.

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Introduction

This textbook is aimed at beginners in the study of English Stylistics. Following the course in English Lexicology, it treats all major essentials of Stylistics and deals with the general categories and terms of it. Furthermore, it presents commonly shared approaches to Stylistics as a branch of Linguistics and goes deep into understanding the nature of communicative, informative, emotive aspects of language functioning. Of special concern is the opinion of the author on the word meaning structure and its stylistic potentials, his own understanding of connotation and on word functioning and stylistic convergency in the text.

The theoretical points are linked with the practical classroom applications as it outlines the expressive means and stylistic devices and specifies their imaginary and pragmatic potentials.

The author hopes that work with this textbook will help to develop communicative competence and performance of future specialists in Linguistics, Interpretation and translation, Language teaching, as it is aimed at improving the skills of adequate comprehension and accurate interpretation of texts used in different sphere of human communication (mass media editorials, brief news, feature and analytical articles, scientific prose, emotive prose, poetry, drama, etc.).

The book contains three parts: a) ten lectures; b) extended outlines of ten seminars with key words, definitions of essential terms, questions to revise the topic, reading matters; c) some appendices which might be handy for both students and teachers as they are comprised of schemes of stylistic layers of the English vocabulary, the English language varieties, word meaning structure with a special focus on a stylistic part of word meaning, a list of key terms of Stylistics (expressive means and stylistic devices) followed by some commentaries and illustrative examples. Some seminars are dedicated to the problems not lectured.

If the readers are interested in Stylistics they may find it useful to read an extra lecture on stylistic convergency in the text (see Appendix 1).

The materials in this textbook synthesizes the author's experience gained through many-years' work as a professor of Volgograd State Pedagogical University (classes for the students of the Teachers' training, Translation and Information technologies departments) and at the faculty of Philosophy at the Technical university (Karl-Marx-Staadt, Germany). While composing it the author used books and students' manuals on Stylistics of English, German, French, Bulgarian and some other languages, read the works by colleagues from English Lexicology and Stylistics Chairs of Moscow State Linguistic University (former Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages named after Morris Torez). This textbooks differs from its predecessors by showing Stylistics not only as a compendium of rhetorical tropes and devices, but as an ever-living and constantly changing phenomenon engaged in transporting meanings of personalities, in making speech ornamental, evaluative and emotionally charged. It deals with the world of personalized meanings and interpretations.

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Шаховский Виктор Иванович

Доктор филологических наук, профессор, заслуженный деятель науки Российской Федерации. Почетный доктор Волгоградского государственного социально-педагогического университета, заведующий научно-исследовательской лабораторией "Язык и личность", руководитель научной школы эмотиологии (лингвистика эмоций). Под его руководством защищено 33 кандидатских и 11 докторских диссертаций.

Около 400 работ В. И. Шаховского посвящены основам теории эмотивности языка и ее национально-лингвальным особенностям. Данные работы опубликованы в научных изданиях России, США, ФРГ, Болгарии, Польши, Словении, Украины, Китая, Испании. Наиболее известные монографии ученого: «Эмотивный компонент значения и методы его описания», «Эмоции в деловом общении», «Лингвокультурология эмоций» (три издания), «Текст и его когнитивно-эмотивные метаморфозы» (в соавт. с Ю. А. Сорокиным и И. В. Томашевой), «Die Amerikanizierung Russlands und seiner Sprache» (в соавт. c H. Fink, L. Fijas), «Стилистика английского языка» (М.: URSS; на русском и английском языках), «Категоризация эмоций в лексико-семантической системе языка» (М.: URSS), «Эмоции: Долингвистика, лингвистика, лингвокультурология» (М.: URSS) и другие.