This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using Andersen's "nativization hypothesis" and the dictum that full competence demands mastery of stylistic variation as well as grammar, the ...

In the editorial on Thursday, we said “different to” instead of “different from”. I prefer “different from”, but this is a stylistic preference rather than any rule of grammar. Even so, we ought to be ...

Stylistics is a branch of linguistics. It studies and analyzes linguistic features of texts — literary or otherwise. Stylistics explains and interprets the choice of language — vocabularies and ...