Lecture 6 Phonetic Stylistic Devices and Graphical Means

The stylistic approach to the utterance is not confined to its structure and sense. There is another thing to be taken into account which, in a certain type of communication plays an important role. This is the way a word, a phrase or a sentence sounds. The sound of most words taken separately will have little or no aesthetic value. A word may acquire a desired phonetic effect only in combination with other words. The way a separate word sounds may produce a certain euphonic effect, but this is a matter of individual perception and feeling and therefore subjective.

1. The stylistic devices in poetry and prose
2. The functions of phonetic stylistic devices
3. The peculiarities of graphical phonetic means