Stylistics : A Resource Book for Students
Language: English
Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
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- Title
- Stylistics : A Resource Book for Students
- Author
- Simpson, Paul
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415644976
- ISBN 13
- 9780415644976
- Edition
- 2nd Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.338 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.
Written in a clear and accessible style, Stylistics, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all the major theories, concepts and methods required for the investigation of language in literature. From metre to metaphor, dialogue to discourse, the main topics are introduced and fully elaborated, as are the key research paradigms of this important and exciting field of study. Stylistics is richly illustrated with many examples from literary texts, including writing from the established literary canon alongside more contemporary work in poetry, prose and drama. Each of the book’s twelve chapters contains clearly framed suggestions for practical work and is accompanied by an original reading on the relevant topic by a world-renowned scholar.
This exciting new second edition builds on the strengths of the first by adding many fresh exercises and worked examples. It captures the latest major developments in stylistics, such as corpus, cognitive and multimodal approaches to the study of style, and its accompanying website has also been substantially revised to feature, amongst other things, useful links, worked examples and a new web strand on style and humour. In addition to the classic readings in stylistics contained in the first edition, the new edition includes a number of recent, stimulating readings by key figures in the contemporary field. Written by an experienced teacher and researcher, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language, linguistics and literature.
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About the Author
Paul Simpson is a Professor of English Language in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is best known for his books and articles in stylistics and critical linguistics and his publications in this area include Language, Ideology and Point of View, Language through Literature and the co-authored textbook Language and Power, all published by Routledge. He is the author of the monograph On the Discourse of Satire and from 2003 to 2009 was editor of Language and Literature, the journal of the International Poetics and Linguistics Association. He is currently writing a monograph on the linguistic pragmatics of irony.
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