Phonological& Graphological Level

The phonological level:

It is concerned with the phonetic resources as they are used in a given language, it studies the sound system.

Phonology is organized in units (tone group which carries contrasts of intonation, the foot which carries the rhythm, syllable which carries contrasts of stress, and phoneme which is the smallest phonological unit),

Some of the features which are signaled out to contribute the totality of stylistic construction that makes up a writer's style are:

1.   Repetition of certain constants (nasal, sibilants, emphatic …)

2.   Nature of syllables (open or closed)

3.   Quantity of syllable (short, long)

4.   The position, nature and quantity of the prominent syllable)

5.   Elision, alliteration, liaison …

6.   Prosodic features of stress, length of intonation and their relation to rhythm.

The graphological level:

 In this respect, stylistics is interested in how the writer uses the graphic resource of his language to give expression to his ideas and achieve his effects. It describes patterns of writing that distinguish the writer's style, for example capitalization, punctuation, spacing and so on.

The graphology of each language has its own units, in English we have: Paragraph, orthographic sentence, sub – sentence, orthographic word, and letters.