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Stylistics A Resource Book for Students

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ISBN-10: 0415644976

ISBN-13: 9780415644976

Edition: 2nd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Paul Simpson

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Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration and extension - which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Stylistics: provides a comprehensive overview of the methods and theories of…    
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Book details

List price: $38.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Introduction: key concepts in stylistics
What is stylistics?
Stylistics and levels of language
Grammar and style
Rhythm and metre
Narrative stylistics
Style as choice
Style and point of view
Representing speech and thought
Dialogue and discourse
Cognitive stylistics
Metaphor and metonymy
New directions in stylistics: corpus approaches
Development: doing stylistics
Developments in stylistics
Levels of language at work: an example from poetry
Sentence styles: development and illustration
Interpreting patterns of sound
Developments in structural narratology
Style and transitivity
Approaches to point of view
Techniques of speech and thought presentation
Dialogue in drama
Developments in cognitive stylistics
Styles of metaphor
Developments in corpus stylistics
Exploration: investigating style
Is there a "literary language"?
Style, register and dialect
Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism
Styles in a single poem: an exploration
A sociolinguistic model of narrative
Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre
Exploring point of view in narrative fiction
A workshop on speech and thought presentation
Exploring dialogue
Cognitive stylistics at work
Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts
Using corpora in stylistic analysis
Extension: readings in stylistics
Stylistics and the teaching of literature
Style and verbal play
Teaching grammar and style
Sound, style and onomatopoeia
A typology of narrative gaps
Transitivity at work
Style variation and point of view
The effects of free indirect discourse
Multi-modal analysis and the stylistics of drama
Conceptual blending and stylistic analysis
Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor
Corpus stylistics