Stylistics

Name: Stylistics
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ISBN: 9780194372404

ISBN-10: 0194372405

ISBN-13: 9780194372404

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter Verdonk, H. G. Widdowson, H.g. Widdowson

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This book deals with the study of style in language, how styles can be recognized, and their features. It examines how style is used in literary and non-literary texts, and how familiarity with style is a matter of socialization. The author also discusses the relationship between text and discourse, the production and reception of meaning as a dynamic contextualized interaction, the question of perspective and the variable representation of reality, and how stylistics can complementliterary criticism. The final chapter deals with social reading and ideological positioning, including some thoughts on feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis.

Book details

List price: $34.10
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.87" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Peter Verdonk is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.nbsp; His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (1993) and Stylistics (2002),nbsp; Literature andthe New Interdisciplinarity (1994, with Roger D. Sell), Twentieth-century Fiction (1995, with Jean JacquesWeber), and Exploring the Language of Drama (1998,with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short).



Preface





Survey


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The concept of style


Features of style: a newspaper headline


Style as motivated choice


Style in context


Style and persuasive effect


Conclusion



Style in literature


Text type and style


Text type and function


Conclusion



Text and discourse


The nature of text


The nature of discourse


Textual and contextual meaning


The headline revisited


The context of literary discourse


The communicative situation in literary discourse


Conclusion



Perspectives on meaning


The double meaning of perspective


Perspective in narrative fiction


Stylistic markers of perspective and positioning


Deixis


Given and new information


Ideological perspective


Conclusion



The language of literary representation


Perspective in third-person narration


Speech and thought representation


Conclusion



Perspectives on literary interpretation


Literary criticism


Interpreting a complete poem


Substantiation by analysis


Literary interpretation revisited


Conclusion



Stylistics and ideological perspectives


Social reading and ideological postioning


Incorporation of literary criticism into linguistic criticism?


Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)


Conclusion





Readings





References





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