Critical stylistics : the power of English
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Critical stylistics : the power of English
（Perspectives on the English language）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This original and engaging textbook is concerned with stylistic choices, and the textual analysis which can illuminate the choices that a text producer has made. It combines the strengths of two approaches - critical discourse analysis and stylistics - to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts. In so doing, it introduces a comprehensive set of tools which will help readers to explain and analyse the power of written texts. Each chapter focuses on a particular linguistic feature - such as naming and describing, prioritizing, negating, and hypothesizing - gives an overview of its argument and then explains the technical aspects of the feature along with a wealth of examples.
This book will be ideal reading for students on a wide range of courses, including stylistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, English functional grammar and advanced composition.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- The Background to Critical Stylistics.- Naming and Describing.- Representing Actions/Events/States.- Equating and Contrasting.- Exemplifying and Enumerating.- Prioritising.- Implying and Assuming.- Negating.- Hypothesising.- Presenting Others' Speech and Thoughts.- Representing Time, Space and Society.- Appendix Commentaries on Exercises.- Bibliography.- Index.
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