| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 378 pages) |
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Edinburgh textbooks on the English language -- advanced |
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Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page -- Contemporary Stylistics; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Permission acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Part I Introducing contemporary stylistics; 1 Contemporary stylistics; Part II Literature as language; 2 Foregrounding; 3 Phonemes to sound patterning; 4 Morphemes to words; 5 Phrase to sentence; 6 Register, lexical semantics, and cohesion; Part III Literature as discourse; 7 Dialogue and spoken discourse; 8 Speech, thought, and narration; 9 Modality and point of view; 10 Transitivity and ideology; 11 Varieties and invented languages; Part IV Text as cognition |
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12 Figure and ground13 Deixis and deictic shift; 14 Schemas, scripts, and prototypes; 15 Cognitive grammar and construal; Part V Reading as mental spaces; 16 Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration; 17 Text-worlds; 18 Negation and lacuna; Part VI Reading as experience; 19 Analysing the multimodal text; 20 Understanding emotions; Part VII Reading as data; 21 Corpus stylistics; 22 Investigating readers; Part VIII Conclusion; 23 Future stylistics; References; Index |
| Summary |
Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-366) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Style.
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Language and languages -- Style.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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English language -- Style
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English literature
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Language and languages -- Style
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748682782 |
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0748682783 |
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