Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Introduction: key concepts in stylistics -- 1 What is stylistics? -- 2 Stylistics and levels of language -- 3 Grammar and style -- 4 Rhythm and metre -- 5 Narrative stylistics -- 6 Style as choice -- 7 Style and point of view -- 8 Representing speech and thought -- 9 Dialogue and discourse -- 10 Cognitive stylistics -- 11 Metaphor and metonymy -- 12 New directions in stylistics: Corpus approaches -- B Development: doing stylistics -- 1 Developments in stylistics -- 2 Levels of language at work: an example from poetry -- 3 Sentence styles: development and illustration -- 4 Interpreting patterns of sound -- 5 Developments in structural narratology -- 6 Style and transitivity -- 7 Approaches to point of view -- 8 Techniques of speech and thought presentation -- 9 Dialogue in drama 10 Developments in cognitive stylistics -- 11 Styles of metaphor -- 12 Developments in corpus stylistics -- C Exploration: investigating style -- 1 Is There a 'literary language'? -- 2 Style, register and dialect -- 3 Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism -- 4 Styles in a single poem: an exploration -- 5 A sociolinguistic model of narrative -- 6 Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre -- 7 Exploring point of view in narrative fiction -- 8 A workshop on speech and thought presentation -- 9 Exploring dialogue -- 10 Cognitive stylistics at work -- 11 Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts -- 12 Using corpora in stylistic analysis -- D Extension: readings in stylistics -- 1 Stylitics and the teaching of literature (Henry Widdowson) -- 2 Style and verbal play (Katie Wales) 3 Teaching grammar and style (Ronal Carter) -- 4 Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge) -- 5 A typology of narrative gaps (Donald Hardy) -- 6 Transitivity at work (Deirdre Burton) -- 7 Style variation and point of view (Mick Short) -- 8 The effects of free indirect discourse (Joe Bray) -- 9 Multimodal analysis and the stylistics of drama (Dan McIntyre) -- 10 Conceptual blending and stylistic analysis (Barbara Dancygier) -- 11 Cognitive styistics and the theory of metaphor (Peter Stockwell) -- 12 Corpus stylistics (Michaela Mahlberg and Catherine Smith).

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