The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics

This Bloomsbury Companion provides an overview of stylistics with a detailed outline of the scope and history of the discipline, as well as its key areas of research.

The main research methods and approaches within the field are presented with a detailed overview and then illustrated with a chapter of unique new research by a leading scholar in the field. The Companion also features in-depth explorations of current research areas in stylistics in the form of new studies by established researchers in the field. The broad interdisciplinary scope of stylistics is reflected in the wide array of approaches taken to the linguistic study of texts drawing on traditions from linguistics, literary theory, literary criticism, critical theory and narratology, and in the diverse group of internationally recognised contributors.

Violeta Sotirova is a Lecturer in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Part I: The Discipline of Stylistics \ 1. Definition of Stylistics \ 2. History of Stylistics \ 3. Stylistics and Linguistics \ 4. Stylistics and Literary Criticism \ Part II: Theoretical Approaches and Research Methods \ 5. Formalism, Structuralism and Stylistics, Jonathan Culler \ 6. Generative Grammar and Stylistics, Andrew Caink \ 7. Functional Grammar and Stylistics, Rocio Montoro \ 8. Pragmatics and Stylistics, Jonathan Culpeper \ 9. Discourse Stylistics, tbc \ 10. Cognitive Stylistics, Cathy Emmott \ 11. Feminist Stylistics, Sara Mills \ 12. Corpus Stylistics, Michaela Mahlberg \ 13. Critical and Cultural Stylistics, Lesley Jeffries \ 14. Historical Stylistics, Beatrice Busse \ 15. Empirical Stylistics, Willie van Peer \ 16. Pedagogical Stylistics, Sonja Zynger \ 17. Integrationist Stylistics, Michael Toolan \ 18. Stylistics and Translation, tbc \ 19. Stylistics and Literary Theory, Katie Wales \ Part III: Current Areas of Research \ 20. Foregrounding and Defamiliarisation, Geoffrey Leech \ 21. Metaphor, Gerard Steen \ 22. Mind Style, Elena Semino \ 23. Narrative Point of View , Joe Bray \ 24. Speech and Thought Presentation / Free Indirect Discourse , Mick Short \ 25. Dialect in Literature, Jane Hodson \ 26. Deixis, Keith Green \ 27. Dialogue, Dan McIntyre \ 28. Text Worlds, Joanna Gavins \ 29. Texture, Peter Stockwell \ 30. Iconicity, Olga Fischer \ 31. Irony, Paul Simpson \ 32. Feeling, David Miall \ 33. Phonoaesthetics, Derek Attridge \ 34. Multimodality, Nina Nørgaard \ Part IV: Genres and Periods \ 35. Dramatic Discourse , Sarah Grandage \ 36. The Poetics of Everyday Language, Ron Carter \ 37. Old English Style, Sara Pons-Sanz \ 38. Middle English Style, Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz \ 39. Renaissance Style, Sylvia Adamson \ Part V: Resources \ Part VI: Annotated Bibliography \ Index