
- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series editors’ preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 The Background to Critical Stylistics
- CHAPTER 2 Naming and Describing
- CHAPTER 3 Representing Actions/Events/States
- CHAPTER 4 Equating and Contrasting
- CHAPTER 5 Exemplifying and Enumerating
- CHAPTER 6 Prioritizing
- CHAPTER 7 Implying and Assuming
- CHAPTER 8 Negating
- CHAPTER 9 Hypothesizing
- CHAPTER 10 Presenting Others’ Speech and Thoughts
- CHAPTER 11 Representing Time, Space and Society
- Appendix – Commentaries on Exercises
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index