Analyzing Prose - Second Edition

Klappentext This second edition of the classic linguistics text provides a basic descriptive terminology for prose style. What is a noun style? A verb style? A hypotactic or a paratactic one? How does the running style differ from the periodic style? What do "high, middle, and low" prose style mean? How might one apply the classical terminology of rhetorical figures to prose analysis? Analyzing Prose supplies detailed, carefully charted answers to these questions in order to teach the student of prose style how and where to begin. Zusammenfassung Providing a basic descriptive terminology for prose style, this handbook supplies detailed, carefully charted answers to questions such as: what is a noun style? A verb style? A hypotactic or a paratactic style?

Product details

• Authors: Richard Lanham, Lanham Richard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780826461902
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-6190-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology