Critical Stylistics - The Power of English

This original and engaging textbook is concerned with stylistic choices, and the textual analysis which can illuminate the choices that a text producer has made. It combines the strengths of two approaches - critical discourse analysis and stylistics - to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts. In so doing, it introduces a comprehensive set of tools which will help readers to explain and analyse the power of written texts. Each chapter focuses on a particular linguistic feature - such as naming and describing, prioritizing, negating, and hypothesizing - gives an overview of its argument and then explains the technical aspects of the feature along with a wealth of examples.This book will be ideal reading for students on a wide range of courses, including stylistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, English functional grammar and advanced composition.>

List of contents

Introduction.- The Background to Critical Stylistics.- Naming and Describing.- Representing Actions/Events/States.- Equating and Contrasting.- Exemplifying and Enumerating.- Prioritising.- Implying and Assuming.- Negating.- Hypothesising.- Presenting Others' Speech and Thoughts.- Representing Time, Space and Society.- Appendix Commentaries on Exercises.- Bibliography.- Index.

About the author

Lesley Jeffries is Principal Lecturer in English at Huddersfield University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Jeffries
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2009
• EAN: 9780333964484
• ISBN: 978-0-333-96448-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Perspectives on the English Language; Perspectives on the English La; Perspectives on the English Language; Perspectives on the English La
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Social Sciences, Stylistics, Language and languages—Style, discourse;discourse analysis;grammar;language;stylistics