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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Style and Stylistics
The figure of speech often considered as the synonym of the stylistics, but in fact the figure of speech is part of language style. The language style has many wide
references, According to Hari Murti Kridalaksana, the style language have three definitions, there are:
1. The utilization of someone’s language properties of speaking and writing. 2. The usage of particular style to achieve the certain effects.
3. The whole language character of group of writers
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. Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that
language in a context, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language. A
variety, in this sense, is a situationally distinctive use of language. For example, the language of advertising, politics, religion, individual authors, etc, or the language of
a period in time, all are used distinctively and belong in a particular situation. Stylistics also attempts to establish principles capable of explaining the particular
choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language, such as socialization, the production and reception of meaning, critical discourse analysis and
literary criticism.
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Hari Murti Kridalaksana, Kamus Linguistik Edisi 3. Jakarta: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 1993. p.63
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Stylistics Linguitics, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. January 2
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The efforts of understanding, application, and applying of rhetoric to get the artistic effect were called as stylistic appreciation of the stylistics’ object such as
proverb, idiomatic, associative sentence, and style.
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Style here can be referred to style of language.
Based on the language aspect, style of language can be divided into style of language based on diction. Tone on discourse, sentence structure, and style of
language based on direct and indirect sense.
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The style of language based on the indirect sense is usually called as figure of speech.
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B. Figure of Speech
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