Abstract:
In linguistics there are different terms to denote particular means by which utterances are foregrounded, for instance, made more conspicuous, more effective and therefore imparting some additional information. They are called expressive means, stylistic means, stylistic markers, stylistic devices, tropes, figures of speech and other names. All these terms are used indiscriminately and are set against those means which we shall conventionally call neutral. Most linguists distinguish ordinary (substantial, referential) semantic and stylistic differences in meaning.
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