The Style and Timbre of English Speech and Literature [electronic resource] /
Konurbaev, Marklen E.author.
The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prolegomena to stylistic timbrology: automation and foregrounding -- Neutrality in language / neutrality in speech -- Classification of contexts by types of stylistic background -- A glimpse of the brain: the mechanism of mental audition -- Inner and outer speech: a parametric match -- Individual author's style: the way to hear timbre -- The style and timbre of everyday speech -- The style and timbre of official documents -- The timbre of journalism -- The voices in fiction.
The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype.
English language.
Language and languages—Style.
Literature.
Pragmatics.
Phonology.
Literacy.
English.
Stylistics.
Literature, general.
Pragmatics.
Phonology and Phonetics.
Literacy.