Stylistics An excellent introduction to the field of Stylistics. The book deals with the study of style in language, how styles can be recognized, and their different components. Looks at style in literary and non-literary texts, and how familiarity with style is a matter of socialization. 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 complement literary criticism. The final chapter deals with social reading and ideological positioning, including some thoughts on feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis. Ideal for undergraduate university courses and pre-reading on MA courses, as well as teachers, trainee teachers, students of linguistics and literature, and teacher educators. By Peter Verdonk - (OUP)   Order Now > Book     Practical Stylistics Looks in particular at the nature of poetry and follows this through to proposals for teaching. Considers how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions for individual interpretation and the representation of reality in ways other than those which are established by normal social convention. The author argues that this view of poetry leads to a recognition of its essential role in education, and provides a set of principles for an approach to teaching it which integrates the study of language and literature. By H G Widdowson - (OUP)   Order Now > Book       Language in Literature: An Introduction to Stylistics Serving as both an introduction and workbook in stylistics, this excellent book outlines the main principles in stylistics and looks at variety of topics, such as "recorded speech" and "narrative structures". Throughout the text, students are gradually introduced to the principles of linguistic analysis of texts and encouraged from the outset to do textual analysis themselves. A diversity of English texts are offered for commentary and analysis. By Michael J. Toolan - (Edward Arnold)   Order Now > Paperback Edition | Hardback Edition     Stylistics (New Critical Idiom) An introduction to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It provides students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis, and explores areas such as: the terminology of literary form; how literary style has evolved since the 16th century; the role of stylistics from classical rhetoric to poststructuralism; the relationship between literary style and its historical context; style and gender; and examples of poems, plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. By Richard Bradford - (Routledge)   Order Now > Paperback Edition | Hardback Edition       Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis (Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1) Provides an international forum for researchers who believe that the application of linguistic methods leads to a deeper and more far-reaching understanding of many aspects of literature. The books's main focus is on pragmatic approaches intersecting with areas such as discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, rhetoric, philosophy, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and stylistics. By Elena Semino (Editor), Jonathan Culpeper (Editor), William M. Leary - (John Benjamins Publishing Co)   Order Now > Book       A Dictionary of Stylistics (2nd Edition) This is a fully comprehensive reference which covers core terms and all related new theories and approaches (discourse analysis, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, etc). This invaluable dictionary is unique in the field of stylistics and will be of particular interest to students and lecturers of stylistic analysis, general linguistics, English language and English literature. By Katie Wales - (Longman)   Order Now > Book     Back to Bookstore
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