چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper is an attempt at closely examining the place of stylistics in literary
interpretation. The writer believes that language alone leads to a mechanical (or
soulless) interpretation of a literary text, and a literary criticism solely based on the
critic’s intuition does not hold much water (Cañares, 2002). Thus, stylistics, the
branch of linguistics which studies the style of texts, mainly literature, emerged as a
framework that intersperses the fields of linguistics and literary criticism, serving as a
crucial link between these two complementary disciplines. In addition, the paper
addresses issues that have been raised for and against literary experts and linguists in
relation to stylistics. And to prove that stylistics is relevant to literature, one
interesting short story titled “Midsummer” by a renowned Filipino author, Manuel
E. Arguilla, was analyzed using the schema devised by Leech and Short (1981),
particularly the lexical and grammatical categories. Pedagogical implications for
teaching literature are also discussed in this paper.