A Dictionary of Stylistics (Studies in Language & Linguistics) - Hardcover

Wales, Katie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582291429 ISBN 13: 9780582291423

Publisher: Longman, 1989

Synopsis

Designed both as a dictionary and a guide-book, this volume contains over 600 alphabetically-listed terms relating to the study of stylistics. Using material drawn from a range of sources, including poetic and traditional rhetoric, sociolinguistics and semiotics, it includes quotations and explanations of grammatical theory. It should be useful to upper school students of English for whom it is a first language; undergraduate students of English literature and language, linguistics, communications studies and film and drama; and students of English as a foreign language.

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Review

"xxx;a most welcome addition to the works on stylistics that have appeared in recent yearsxxx;the book is well and clearly writtenxxx;the scopexxx;is vastxxx;[with] valuable insights and linkagesxxx;"

Applied Linguistics

From the Back Cover

Reviews of the first edition:

'...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... '(English Today)

'...an impressive single-author reference work... '(English)

'...Not only is this volume indispensible for anyone, students or academics, working in any field related to stylistics, it is, like all the best dictionaries, a very good read...' (Le Lingue del Mondo)
Over the past ten years there have been striking advances in stylistics. These have given rise to new terms and to revised thinking of concepts and re-definitions of terms. A Dictionary of Stylistics, 2nd Edition contains over 600 alphabeticlly listed entries: fully revised since the first edition it contains many new entries.

Drawing material from stylistics and a range of related disciplines such as sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and traditional rhetoric, the revised Dictionary of Stylistics provides a valuable reference work for students and teachers of stylistics, as well as critical discourse analysis and literary criticism. The new edition explains terminology clearly and concisely, and unravels many ambiguities. At the same time it provides a general picture of the nature, insights and methodologies of stylistics.

With numerous quotations; explanations for many basic terms from grammar and rhetoric; and a comprehensive bibliography, this is a unique reference work and handbook for stylistic and textual analysis. Students and teachers at secondary and tertiary levels of English language and literature or English as a foreign or second language, and of linguistics, will find it an invaluable source of information.

Katie Wales is Professor of Modern English Language, University of Leeds and Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582291429
• ISBN 13: 9780582291423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524