Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism

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Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism

Dennis Freeborn

(Studies in English language)

Macmillan, 1996

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 283

Includes index

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Description

This new coursebook offers teachers and students a thorough and lively guide to stylistic and critical analysis of a range of texts, both literary and non-literary, classic and contemporary. Full of examples and exercises, this is an invaluable book for all students of English language and its usage.

Table of Contents

Symbols - Acknowledgements - Introduction - What is Style? - Words - New Words for Old - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 1 - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 2 - Traditional Rhetoric - Rhetorical Style - Writing without Style - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 3 - Words and Grammar in Verse - Prose Translations - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 1 - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 2 - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 3 - Poetic Prose - Verse Translation - First Person Narrative - The Spoken Voice - Original and Simplified Texts - Parody and Pastiche - Styles of News Reporting

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