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Title

The Cambridge handbook of stylistics / edited by Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham, Sara Whiteley, University of Sheffield.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Stockwell, Peter
• Whiteley, Sara (Professor)

Description

xv, 673 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory"--

Series Statement

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics

Uniform Title

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of stylistics
• Stylistics

Subject

• English language > Style
• English language > Rhetoric
• Language and languages > Style
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General
• Stilistik
• Englisch
• Rhetorik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 616-667) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Peter Stockwell and Sara Whiteley -- Part I. The Discipline of Stylistics: 2. The theory and philosophy of stylistics / Michael Toolan; 3. The stylistic tool-kit: methods and sub-disciplines / Katie Wales; 4. Quantitative methods in literary linguistics / Michael Stubbs; 5. Stylistics as rhetoric / Craig Hamilton; 6. Stylistics as applied linguistics / Ronald Carter; 7. Stylistics as literary criticism / Geoff Hall -- Part II. Literary Concepts and Stylistics: 8. Genre / Beatrix Busse; 9. Intertextuality and allusion / Patrick Colm Hogan; 10. Production and intentionality / Violeta Sotirova; 11. Characterisation / Dan McIntyre; 12. Voice / Christiana Gregoriou; 13. Narration / Jessica Mason; 14. Defamiliarisation / Joanna Gavins; 15. Intensity and texture in imagery / Barbara Dancygier -- Part III. Techniques of Style: 16. Phonostylistics and the written text / Manuel Jobert; 17. Grammatical configuration / Michaela Mahlberg; 18. Semantic prosody / Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic; 19. Action and event / Paul Simpson and Patricia Canning; 20. Pragmatics and inference / Billy Clark; 21. Metaphor and style / Gerard Steen; 22. Foregrounding, burying and plot construction / Catherine Emmott and Marc Alexander; 23. Analysing dialogue / Mick Short; 24. Atmosphere and tone / Peter Stockwell -- Part IV. The Contextual Experience of Style: 25. Iconicity / Olga Fischer; 26. Ethics / Sara Whiteley; 27. Fictionality and ontology / Alison Gibbons; 28. Emotions, feelings, and stylistics / David S. Miall; 29. Narrative structure / Ruth Page; 30. Performance / Tracy Cruickshank; 31. Interpretation / Lesley Jeffries; 32. A portrait of historical stylistics / Joe Bray -- Part V. Extensions of Stylistics: 33. The analysis of the media / Marina Lambrou and Alan Durant; 34. Advertising culture / Rodney H. Jones; 35. Political style / Jonathan Charteris-Black; 36. The stylistics of relationships / Sara Mills; 37. Stylistics in translation / Benedict Lin; 38. The stylistics of everyday talk / David Peplow; 39. Coda: the practice of stylistics / Peter Stockwell and Sara Whiteley.

Call Number

PE1421

ISBN

• 9781107028876
• 1107028876
• 9781139237031
• 1139237039

LCCN

• 2014002752
• 9781107028876
• 10.1017/CBO9781139237031

OCLC

870211304

Title

The Cambridge handbook of stylistics / edited by Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham, Sara Whiteley, University of Sheffield.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 616-667) and index.

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Cover image

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139237031

Added Author

Stockwell, Peter, editor.

Whiteley, Sara (Professor), editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9781107028876

10.1017/CBO9781139237031 doi

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PE1421 .C36 2014