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Stylistics

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ISBN-10: 052172869X

ISBN-13: 9780521728690

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lesley Jeffries, Daniel McIntyre

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List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.72" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Dan McIntyre is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Language and style
What is stylistics?
The need for stylistics
The scope of stylistics
Aims of stylistic analysis
Data in stylistics
Principles of stylistics
The structure of the book
Exercises
Further reading
Text and style
What is style?
Defamiliarisation: foregrounding by deviation and parallelism
Linguistic levels and stylistic analysis
Questions of style: literariness revisited
Summary and conclusions
Exercises
Further reading
Discourse and context I: Function
Texts as discourse
Functional categories and style
Summary and conclusions
Exercises
Further reading
Discourse and context II: Interaction
Stylistics and pragmatics
Interaction in discourse
An extended analysis of an extract from a dramatic text
Summary and conclusions
Exercises
Further reading
Text and cognition I: Text comprehension
Cognitive stylistics
Schema theory
Figure and ground
Cognitive metaphor theory
Summary and conclusions
Exercises
Further reading
Text and cognition II: Text processing
The reading process
Text world theory
Deictic shift theory
Contextual frame theory
Summary and conclusions
Exercises
Further reading
Methods and issues in stylistic analysis
Methodological considerations
Stylistic studies
Summary and conclusions
Exercises
Further reading
Conclusions and future directions
Stylistics: an interdiscipline
New directions in stylistic analysis
The future of stylistics
Further reading
Answers to exercises
Notes to the text
References
Index