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

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Jeffries
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2009
• EAN: 9780333964491
• ISBN: 978-0-333-96449-1
• 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