Stylistics
Subtitle: a resource book for students
By: Paul Simpson.
Series: Routledge English language introductions; Routledge English language introductions series.
Publisher: Routledge; Brand: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: English language -- Style -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Creative writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Style, Literary -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is stylistics?; title: Stylistics and levels of language; title: Grammar and style; title: Rhythm and metre; title: Narrative stylistics; title: Style as choice; title: Style and point of view; title: Representing speech and thought; title: Dialogue and discourse; title: Cognitive stylistics; title: Metaphor and metonymy; title: Stylistics and verbal humour; title: Development: doing stylistics; title: Developments in stylistics; title: Levels of language at work: an example from poetry; title: Sentence styles: development and illustration; title: Interpreting patterns of sound; title: Developments in structural narratology; title: Style and transitivity; title: Approaches to point of view; title: Techniques of speech and thought presentation; title: Dialogue in drama; title: Developments in cognitive stylistics; title: Styles of metaphor; title: Exploration: investigating style; title: Is there a "literary language"?; title: Style, register and dialect; title: Grammar and genre: a short study in imagism; title: Styles in a single poem: an exploration; title: A sociolinguistic model of narrative; title: Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre; title: Exploring point of view in narrative fiction; title: A workshop on speech and thought presentation; title: Exploring dialogue; title: Cognitive stylistics at work; title: Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts; title: Extension: readings in stylistics; title: How to use these readings; title: Language and literature (Roger Fowler and F. W. Bateson); title: Style and verbal play (Katie Wales); title: Teaching grammar and style (Ronald Carter); title: Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge); title: Style variation in narrative (Mick Short); title: Transitivity at work (Deirdre Burton); title: Point of view: follow-up; title: Speech and thought presentation: key to activities; title: Literature as discourse (Mary Louise Pratt); title: Cognitive stylistics (Margaret Feeman); title: Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor (Peter Stockwell); title: Allusion and parody (Walter Nash).