Example sentences for: stylistics

How can you use “stylistics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the second half of the book, Mills employs the strategies of feminist stylistics to expose the workings of gender at three levels of language--the word, the phrase or sentence, and larger-scale discourse.

  • In Feminist Stylistics , Sara Mills challenges socially sanctioned ways of thinking as she confronts the politics of language-use head on.

  • (Some might protest that the study called stylistics deals with art in language, but those who know the nature of stylistics are aware that it does not even come close to measuring effectiveness, poetry, eloquence, beauty, and other characteristics associated with artistic expression.)

  • In giving readers the means to recognize--and, if they choose, to resist--such characterizations, Feminist Stylistics is an important, ground-breaking book.

  • Her book establishes a framework for such analysis designed both to describe sexism in a text and, through a process she names feminist stylistics, to deconstruct the way in which point of view, agency, metaphor, and other features of the text are unexpectedly closely related to matters of gender.


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