Stylistics is a branch of General Linguistics

As J have said I never wanted to be a writer, but / was not a word-user, rather a word-watcher in the way that some people are bird-watchers (Murdoch, The sublime and the beautiful revisited, 1959).
Here the occasional word “word-watcher» is built according to the model of other words: word-user, bird-watcher. The stylistic effect is achieved by the peculiar combination of the components
this compound word which is compared and contrasted to other words on the basis of the similar models.
Another specific feature of derivative words is their moti­ vation. M otivation is regarded as an essential property of deriva­ tive words; it rests on a relationship between morphemes through which they are motivated (Marchand. 1960). Motivation is fraught with a high stylistic potential. Thus, in the example:
To be the slave of hideous things, to keep a store going, cook meals, wash dishes, carry water and clean floors — poor horror of sordid anti-life (Lawrence, 1977).
The prefixed word “anti-life” is motivated here not only by its components, but also by a precedent description o f a tedious Philistine life. The stylistic implication is created by an explication of the semantic content of the motivated word.
As is known, the process of word-formation is often follo­ wed by conversion, i.e. a shift from one part o f speech to another. Very often this functional shifting is followed not only by se­ mantic, but also by stylistic changes, particularly, when used in the text:
There are few’ bad people and still there is much badness in the world, most o f it due to the many, many, many good people who are ju s t good people and nothing else (The New Book o f Unusual Quotations, 1966:237).
The stylistic effect is achieved by the correlation o f the converted words: bad - badness. The interchange o f the adjectives and the noun here reveals their semantic and stylistic differences to such a degree that makes them paradoxically contrasting.
In conclusion, it should be stressed again that Stylistics o f W ord-fonnation, though not very well studied, is a significant and interesting field o f investigation in stylistics.

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   STY LISTIC PH R A SEO LO G Y
   

The stylistic value o f phraseology is a generally recognized fact; and many researchers in this field have yielded valuable results (B.B. Виноградов. B.H. Телия, Ю.Ю. Авалиани, A.M. Бушуй, А.Э. Маматов). The stylistic meaning o f phraseological units (Ph.U.) lies in the very nature o f these language units which are considered to be highly emotive, evaluative and figurative. Phraseology, therefore, is one o f the prime areas o f stylistic stu­ dies. Stylistic Phraseology studies: a) stylistic differentiation o f Ph.U.; b) stylistic functions o f Ph.U.; c) occasional transformations o f Ph.U. in the text.
From the stylistic point o f view Ph.U. can be classified into
the following groups:

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   Im age-bearing Ph.U. Imagery o f Ph.U. is based on th mechanism o f analogy, metaphorical and metonymical trans­ ference. Accordingly the following types are differentiated:
   

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  Ph.U containing m etaphor: a dog in the manger, a snake in the grass, let cat out o f the hag, a hitter to swallow, a stah in the neck, a break in the clouds; a ray o f hope.
  
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  Ph.U. containing metonvmv: cap and gown; black coat; bread and butter; from mouth to mouth; blue ribbon army; bag and baggage; under petticoat government.
  
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  Ph.U. containing simile: sly as a fo x ; to work like a horse; stubborn as a mule; cool as a cucumber; fa t as butter; good as gold, pretty as a picture;
  
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  Allusive Ph.U. which are classified into the following
  

groups: biblical: fe e t o f clay; the brand o f Cain; the golden calf; massacre o f innocents; seven devils; the prodigal son; myhologi- cal: Pandora's box; the riddle o f the Sphinx; in the arms o f M or­ pheus; a Trojan horse; Achilles heel; the fa ta l sisters; Cassandra warning; literary: a bag o f bones; cakes and ale; the iron heel; the last o f the Mohicans; a rose without a thorn; historical: cross