Definition Chapter1 1
Stylistics is an area of study which straddles two disciplines: literary criticism and linguistics
Besides, it is directly related to literary interpretation, and make use of linguistic facts and theory
Chapter2 2
Style as deviance refers to the distinctiveness of a literary text resides in its departure from the characteristics of what is communicatively normal
p13The phrase “a grief ago” from a poem of that name by Dylan Thomas
It violates two rules of English: a) the indefinite article a clashes syntactically with the uncountable noun grief; b) the post modifying adverb ago clashes semantically with the head word grief
The highly deviant nature of the phrase attracts much attention from the reader to itself, and thus makes it possible for the poet to ex