Through analysis of the books on stylistics written in the English, German, Czech, Slovak and Croatian languages, we describe the development of stylistics, its predecessors, independence from literary science, and the contemporary situation. We focus on Slovenian linguistic stylistics based on an analysis and review of entries including keyword stylistics in the Slovenian bibliographic catalogue Cobiss+. By reviewing and analysing the stylistic publications of Tomo Korošec, who devoted the largest part of his research to media stylistics, we substantiate his contribution to Slovenian theoretical stylistics. The main finding of our comprehensive analysis is that stylistic research in Slovenia has been intense since the 1960s, that an important part of this research relates to the work of Tomo Korošec and that, alongside theoretical stylistics, it is important to include school stylistics as part of general education on all levels.
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