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Richardson, Peter

 
9780205321087: Style: A Pragmatic Approach

Synopsis

Style combines a concise and clear guide to stylistic revision and a mini-anthology of professional prose stylists.

Its approach is non-technical and commonsensical, grounding stylistic instruction in what students already know: namely, how to conduct a conversation. Instead of a list of “rules” of style, Style offers three stylistic guidelines - relevance, proportion, and clarity - derived from everyday conversation and based on the fields of pragmatics and speech act theory. Plentiful examples, exercise sets, a glossary of grammatical and linguistic terms, and the mini-anthology support the instruction.

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ISBN 10:  0205199577 ISBN 13:  9780205199570
Publisher: Pearson, 1997
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