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Table of Contents:

• What is stylistics?
• Stylistics and levels of language
• Grammar and style
• Rhythm and metre
• Narrative stylistics
• Style as choice
• Style and point of view
• Representing speech and thought
• Dialogue and discourse
• Cognitive stylistics
• Metaphor and metonymy
• Stylistics and verbal humour
• Development: doing stylistics
• Developments in stylistics
• Levels of language at work: an example from poetry
• Sentence styles: development and illustration
• Interpreting patterns of sound
• Developments in structural narratology
• Style and transitivity
• Approaches to point of view

• Techniques of speech and thought presentation
• Dialogue in drama
• Developments in cognitive stylistics
• Styles of metaphor
• Exploration: investigating style
• Is there a "literary language"?
• Style, register and dialect
• Grammar and genre: a short study in imagism
• Styles in a single poem: an exploration
• A sociolinguistic model of narrative
• Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre
• Exploring point of view in narrative fiction
• A workshop on speech and thought presentation
• Exploring dialogue
• Cognitive stylistics at work
• Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts
• Extension: readings in stylistics
• How to use these readings
• Language and literature (Roger Fowler and F. W. Bateson)
• Style and verbal play (Katie Wales)
• Teaching grammar and style (Ronald Carter)
• Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge)
• Style variation in narrative (Mick Short)
• Transitivity at work (Deirdre Burton)
• Point of view: follow-up
• Speech and thought presentation: key to activities
• Literature as discourse (Mary Louise Pratt)
• Cognitive stylistics (Margaret Feeman)
• Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor (Peter Stockwell)
• Style and verbal humor (Walter Nash).

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Author/Creator:

Simpson, Paul, 1959-

Contributors:

NetLibrary, Inc.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Stylistics: a resource book for students [by Simpson, P.]

Related Series:

Routledge English language introductions series

Subjects:

English language — Style — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English language — Rhetoric — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Creative writing — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Literary style — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English language — Style

English language

English language — Rhetoric

Creative writing

Literary style

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. "This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004".

Physical Description:

xiv, 247 pages ; 26 cm.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PE1421 .S55 2004eb

ISBNs:

0203496582 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

56341816