Significance of Studies of Stylistics and Rhetoric

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in stylistic distinctiveness eventually.

Rhetoric is "the art or science of communication in words"; it means literally(the art of oratory). Rhetoric is the scientific study of how language could be employed expressively and effectively in Modern times. Rhetoricians emphasize the composing processes of the texts or discourses.

Stylistics is a scientific study of style. The word style used in the definition refers to a distinctive or characteristic manner of expression in language. By identifying and analysing both the effects and processes in employing the devices in languages such as rhetorical figures as Active Rhetorical Means(????) and syntactical patterns, as Passive Rhetorical Means(????), stylisticians lay stresses on the analyses of the style of eventually-composed texts or discourses.

Style(????) is defined or accounted for through three mainaspects:

Other features of stylistics include the use of dialogue, including regional accents and people's dialects, ...

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and fail to accurately convey the intended message from author to reader, thereby rendering such language obsolete precisely because of its conventionality. In addition, any writer wishing to convey their opinion in a variety of language that they feel is proper to its context could find themselves unwittingly conforming to a particular style, which then overshadows the content of their writing.

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Main article: Register (linguistics)

In linguistic analysis, different styles of language are technically called register. Register refers to properties within a language variety that associate that language with a given situation. This is distinct from, say, professional ...

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