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Written in a clear and accessible style,
Stylistics, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all the major theories, concepts and methods required for the investigation of language in literature.
List of contents
Preface
A Introduction: key concepts in stylistics 1 What is stylistics? 2 Stylistics and levels of language 3 Grammar and style 4 Rhythm and metre 5 Narrative stylistics 6 Style as choice 7 Style and point of view 8 Representing speech and thought 9 Dialogue and discourse 10 Cognitive stylistics 11 Metaphor and metonymy 12 Corpus stylistics
B Development: doing stylistics 1 Developments in stylistics 2 Levels of language at work: an example from poetry 3 Sentence styles: development and illustration 4 Interpreting patterns of sound 5 Developments in structural narratology 6 Style and transitivity 7 Approaches to point of view 8 Techniques of speech and thought presentation 9 Dialogue in drama 10 Developments in cognitive stylistics 11 Styles of metaphor 12 Developments in corpus stylistics
C Exploration: investigating style 1 Is there a 'literary language'? 2 Style, register and dialect 3 Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism 4 Stylistics and re-writing: an example from prose fiction 5 A sociolinguistic model of narrative 6 Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre 7 Exploring point of view in narrative fiction 8 A workshop on speech and thought presentation 9 Exploring dialogue 10 Cognitive stylistics at work 11 Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts 12 Using corpora in stylistic analysis
D Extension: readings in stylistics 1 Stylistics and the teaching of literature (Henry Widdowson) 2 Style and verbal play (Katie Wales) 3 Teaching grammar and style (Ronald Carter) 4 Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge) 5 Style shifting and Jamaican Creole (Naomi Adam) 6 Transitivity at work (Deirdre Burton) 7 Style variation and point of view (Mick Short) 8 The effects of free indirect discourse (Joe Bray) 9 Multimodal analysis and the stylistics of drama (Dan McIntyre) 10 From lexical semantics to conceptual integration theory (Patricia Canning and Paul Simpson) 11 Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor (Peter Stockwell) (Suzanne McClure) Further reading References
About the author
Paul Simpson is the Baines Professor of English Language in the Department of English at Liverpool University, UK.
