The Routledge handbook of stylistics

Author(s)

• Burke, Michael

Bibliographic Information

The Routledge handbook of stylistics

edited by Michael Burke

（Routledge handbooks in English language studies）（Routledge handbooks）

Routledge, 2023

2nd ed

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Encompasses a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience Comprises 33 chapters, each providing an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on Includes four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children's literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues

Table of Contents

Introduction Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience PART 1 Historical perspectives in stylistics 1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics 2. Formalist stylistics 3. Functionalist stylistics 4. Reader response criticism and stylistics PART II Core issues in stylistics 5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics 6. (New) historical stylistics 7.Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory 8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle 9. Stylistics and relevance theory 10. Stylistics, point of view and modality 11. Stylistics and narratology 12. Metaphor and stylistics 13. Speech and thought presentation in stylistics PART III Contemporary topics in stylistics 14. Pedagogical stylistics 15. Stylistics, drama and performance 16. Schema theory in stylistics 17. Stylistics and text world theory 18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar 19. Cognitive poetics 20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics 21. Feminist stylistics 22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics 23. Corpus stylistics 24. Stylistics and translation 25.Critical stylistics PART IV Emerging and future trends in stylistics 26. Creative writing and stylistics 27. Stylistics and real readers 28. Stylistics and film 29. Multimodality and stylistics 30. Forensic stylistics 31. Stylistics and Children's Literature 32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health 33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BD03667689
• ISBN:
  • 9780367567491
• LCCN: 2022037673
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 617 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1421
  • DC23 : 808/.042
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Style
  • LCSH : English language -- Rhetoric
  • LCSH : Literary style
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB15325655
  • BB00515431