Stylistics

Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way that they do. This book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics. Organised to reflect the historical development of stylistics from its origins in Russian formalism, the book covers key principles such as foregrounding theory, as well as more recent developments in cognitive stylistics. It includes an examination of both literary and non-literary texts, and substantial coverage of methodologies for stylistic analysis. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the practicalities of producing stylistic analyses that are objective, replicable and falsifiable. Comprehensive in its coverage and assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, Stylistics will be essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students new to this fascinating area of language study.

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield. Dan McIntyre is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Language and style	p. 1
What is stylistics?	p. 1
The need for stylistics	p. 3
The scope of stylistics	p. 9
Aims of stylistic analysis	p. 12
Data in stylistics	p. 14
Principles of stylistics	p. 21
The structure of the book	p. 26
Exercises	p. 27
Further reading	p. 28
Text and style	p. 30
What is style?	p. 30
Defamiliarisation: foregrounding by deviation and parallelism	p. 31
Linguistic levels and stylistic analysis	p. 34
Questions of style: literariness revisited	p. 61
Summary and conclusions	p. 65
Exercises	p. 66
Further reading	p. 67
Discourse and context I: Function	p. 68
Texts as discourse	p. 68
Functional categories and style	p. 71
Summary and conclusions	p. 95
Exercises	p. 96
Further reading	p. 98
Discourse and context II: Interaction	p. 100
Stylistics and pragmatics	p. 100
Interaction in discourse	p. 101
An extended analysis of an extract from a dramatic text	p. 118
Summary and conclusions	p. 122
Exercises	p. 123
Further reading	p. 125
Text and cognition I: Text comprehension	p. 126
Cognitive stylistics	p. 126
Schema theory	p. 127
Figure and ground	p. 133
Cognitive metaphor theory	p. 138
Summary and conclusions	p. 148
Exercises	p. 149
Further reading	p. 151
Text and cognition II: Text processing	p. 152
The reading process	p. 152
Text world theory	p. 152
Deictic shift theory	p. 157
Contextual frame theory	p. 162
Summary and conclusions	p. 166
Exercises	p. 167
Further reading	p. 169
Methods and issues in stylistic analysis	p. 170
Methodological considerations	p. 170
Stylistic studies	p. 175
Summary and conclusions	p. 188
Exercises	p. 188
Further reading	p. 189
Conclusions and future directions	p. 191
Stylistics: an interdiscipline	p. 191
New directions in stylistic analysis	p. 193
The future of stylistics	p. 196
Further reading	p. 197
Answers to exercises	p. 198
Notes to the text	p. 207
References	p. 210
Index	p. 224
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