Pragmatics and stylistics

Revista de Sociolingüística, 2003. — 7 pages.
Consideration of linguistic variation is inherent to pragmatics, especially where such variation relates to contextual factors, an area where it frequently converges with work on stylistics. This article reviews certain relevant contributions made from the perspective of style analysis (literary studies, sociolinguistics, and systemic functionalism) and outlines certain approaches to a stylistics of language, centred on Buhler's threefold division into symptom, signal and symbol. Lastly, illustrations of this approach are given, touching too on the ideological dimension, with reference to questions of analysis.Preamble
Literary studies
Social and functional variation
Symptoms, signals and symbols
Some objects for the application of stylistics
Conclusions
Bibliography