PERSONALITIES in Stylistics Kateryna Sampara Khrystyna Malychok

PERSONALITIES in Stylistics Kateryna Sampara Khrystyna Malychok

The most significant contribution in Stylistics was made by: • Charles Bally • Roman Jakobson • Michael Riffaterre

Charles Bally

Charles Bally 4 February 1865 - 10 April 1947 was a French linguist from the Geneva School, originally from Switzerland.

Charles Bally From 1883 to 1885 he studied classic language and literature in Geneva. He continued his studies from 1886 to 1889 in Berlin where he was awarded a Ph. D. After his studies he worked as a private teacher for the royal family of Greece from 1889 to 1893.

Charles Bally returned to Geneva and taught at a business school from 1893 on and moved to the Progymnasium, a grammar school, from 1913 to 1939. At the same time, he worked as PD at the university form 1893 to 1913. Finally from 1913 to 1939 he had a professorship for general linguistic and comparative Indo. German studies which he took over from Ferdinsnd de Saussure.

Charles Bally Besides his works about subjectivity in the French Language he also wrote about the crisis in French language and language classes. He was active in interlinguistics, serving as a consultant to the research assosiation that presented Interlingua in 1951.

Charles Bally is a founder of stylistics as a science. His most prominent work in the field of Stylistics is “Traité de stylistique française” (1909)

Charles Bally is regarded as the founding-father of linguistic theories of style and much honored for his theories of phraseology.

Charles Bally Also, in terms of modern stylistics he dealt with the expressive function of signs, adding (what is now a well known label) actualisation to those signs which, out of some conditioned reason, exalt their expressive function over the basic communicative one.

Roman Jakobson

Roman Jakobson October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982 was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.

Roman Jakobson As one of the first of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of linguistics during the first half of the twentieth-century, Jakobson was among the most influential linguistics of the century.

Roman Jakobson distinguishes six communication functions, each associated with a dimension or factor of the communication process [elements from Bühler's theory appear in the diagram below in yellow and pink, Jakobson's elaborations in blue]:

Roman Jakobson • • • referential (: contextual information) aesthetic/poetic (: auto-reflection) emotive (: self-expression) conative (: vocative or imperative addressing of receiver) phatic (: checking channel working) metalingual (: checking code working)

Roman Jakobson "Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics, " in Style in Language (ed. Thomas Sebeok), 1960 Questions de poetique, 1973

Roman Jakobson Selected Writings (ed. Stephen Rudy). The Hague, Paris, Mouton, in six volumes (1971– 1985): I. Phonological Studies, 1971 II. Word and Language, 1971 III. The Poetry of Grammar and the Grammar of Poetry, 1980 IV. Slavic Epic Studies, 1966 V. On Verse, Its Masters and Explores, 1978 VI. Early Slavic Paths and Crossroads, 1985

Michael Riffaterre

Michael Riffaterre 20 November 1924 – 27 May 2006 was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach.

Michael Riffaterre is well known in particular for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and the concepts of hypogram and syllepsis. He as well contributed a lot in the development of concept of context.

Michael Riffaterre After receiving the concours general prize in French literature he went on to study at the University of Lyon. After World War II he entered the Sorbonne, where he earned his M. A. in classics in 1947, and then became a doctoral student at Columbia University, earning his Ph. D.

Michael Riffaterre There in 1955 he remained for his entire academic career. He served as the chairman of the Department of French from 1974 -1983. In 1982 he became a University Professor, the highest professorial rank at Columbia.

Michael Riffaterre Works • Le Style des Pleiades de Gobineau: Essai d'application d'une methode stylistique (1957); doctoral dissertation • Essais de stylistique structurale (1971); translated by Daniel Delas • Semiotics of Poetry (1978) • La Production du texte (1979) 1983 English translation Text Production • Fictional Truth (1990)

Other linguists working in a field if Stylistics are: Stephen Ullmann (31 July 1914 – 10 January 1976) was a Hungarian linguist who spent most of his life in England wrote about style and semantics in Romance and common languages.

John Rupert Firth (1890 – 1960), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist. Firth is noted for drawing attention to the context-dependent nature of meaning with his notion of 'context of situation'. In particular, he is known for the famous quotation: You shall know a word by the company it keeps (Firth, J. R. 1957: 11)

• Oleksandr Morokhovskii • Vladimir Arnold • L. P. Yefimov • V. A. Kukharenko • Yurii Skrebnev • Igor Galperin