Decoding stylistics

A comparatively new branch of stylistics is the decoding stylistics, which can be traced back to the works of L. V. Shcherba, B. A. Larin, M. Riffaterre, R. Jackobson and other scholars of the Prague linguistic circle. A serious contribution into this branch of stylistic study was also made by Prof. I. V. Arnold (3, 4). Each act of speech has the performer, or sender of speech and the recipient. The former does the act of encoding and the latter the act of decoding the information.

^Jf we analyse the text from the author's (encoding) point of view ^we should consider the epoch, the historical situation, the personal Political, social and aesthetic views of the author.

' we try to treat the same text from the reader's angle of view max" ^{haVS t0 disre}8^ard ^s background knowledge and get the sitio ^{mUm ltlformation from} the text itself (its vocabulary, compo­se ' ^sen,ence arrangement, etc.). The first approach manifests -valence of the literary analysis. The second is based almost

Chapter 1. The Object of Stylistics

exclusively on the linguistic analysis. Decoding stylistics is an attempt to harmoniously combine the two methods of stylistic research and enable the scholar to interpret a work of art with a minimum loss of its purport and message.

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