ABSTRACT
Pragmastylistics, or stylistics with a pragmatic component, can be described as a study of language-in-use which pays special attention to the choices made from among the various grammatically correct ways of expressing one and the same thing. The domain of pragmastylistics, includes the study of all the conditions, linguistic and extralinguistic, which allow the rules and potential of a language to combine with the concrete factors of a situation in order to produce a text intended to bring about certain internal changes in the receiver. George W. Turner's treatment of speech acts goes to the heart of pragmatics in pointing out that, while sharing, shaping and showing pervade all language-use and take many forms. Carmen Silva-Corvalan explores certain linguistic means which a speaker may choose in order to express degrees of assertiveness or certainty, as against 'hypotheticality'. Style as choice thus relates to the pragmatic factor of the speaker's meaning.
