Critical Stylistics

The Power of English

AvLesley Jeffries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This original and engaging textbook is concerned with stylistic choices, and the textual analysis which can illuminate the choices that a text producer has made. It combines the strengths of two approaches – critical discourse analysis and stylistics – to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts. In so doing, it introduces a comprehensive set of tools which will help readers to explain and analyse the power of written texts. Each chapter focuses on a particular linguistic feature – such as naming and describing, prioritizing, negating, and hypothesizing – gives an overview of its argument and then explains the technical aspects of the feature along with a wealth of examples.This book will be ideal reading for students on a wide range of courses, including stylistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, English functional grammar and advanced composition.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-12-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:479 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Perspectives on the English Language
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780333964484

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LESLEY JEFFRIES is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield. She was Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association from 2007 to 2009 and is the author of books including Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English (Palgrave 2006) and Textual Construction of the Female Body (Palgrave 2007).

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'Perfectly pitched to meet the needs of students in courses such as English functional grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, advanced composition and critical discourse analysis. Jeffries's book is a long needed synthesis of linguistic stylistics and critical discourse analysis; it provides excellent background reading for advanced research on such issues as negation, speech and thought presentation, systemic grammar, and presupposition.'- Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, USA

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionThe Background to Critical StylisticsNaming and DescribingRepresenting Actions/Events/StatesEquating and ContrastingExemplifying and EnumeratingPrioritisingImplying and AssumingNegatingHypothesisingPresenting Others' Speech and ThoughtsRepresenting Time, Space and SocietyAppendix Commentaries on ExercisesBibliographyIndex.