German Stylistics (Essential Reading Series for Learning German)

Author: Li Kui Liu (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2004-11-03
Features: This book is practical and comprehensive, addressing the concepts of style, practical issues, and stylistic devices. It also provides practical insights into language organization and text comprehension. Additionally, it delves deeply into stylistic devices within sentence structures, the stylistic value of sentence variations, the possibilities of variation within grammatical categories, stylistic devices in vocabulary, and linguistic imagery. This book will teach you: the stylistic value of various elements of the German language, such as sentence patterns, sentence structures, and word order; important stylistic variations in sentence structures, the stylistic features of parts of speech and tenses; the communicative and stylistic requirements of word choice; the stylistic connotations and levels of German vocabulary; linguistic imagery (metaphor, simile, metonymy, personification, association, allusion, symbolism, euphemism, exaggeration, and understatement) as well as the characteristics of register.
We must not only master certain stylistic knowledge but also engage in repeated language practice. Through extensive practice, we will realize that learning style begins with understanding individual stylistic devices and variations, ultimately aiming to achieve the ability to speak and write German fluently and well. According to the author, "good German" refers to appropriateness, naturalness, elegance, and individuality.