ABSTRACT
Any linguistic element that determines the stylistic features of a text. In addition to particular stylistic devices like figures of speech, any linguistic phenomenon can have a stylistic function. There are phonetic elements of style, (alliteration, phonostylistics), lexical elements of style (nominalization, archaism), morphological elements of style (genitive ending ‘s), syntactic elements of style (sentence complexity, length of sentence), and textual and pragmatic elements of style (types of cohesion, theme-rheme, thematic development).
