Critical Stylistics The Power of English
by Jeffries, LesleyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
We tend to think that politicians, copywriters and journalists can affect us by their use of language, but how does this happen, exactly? Critical Discourse Analysis provides us with general theories for explaining the impact texts can have, considering the social and political contexts in which texts are produced and read. Stylistics provides detailed tools of analysis for understanding how texts work. Critical Stylistics combines the strengths of these two approaches to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts. Original and engaging,Critical Stylistics: presents a new amalgamation of stylistics, critical discourse analysis and functional approaches to grammar introduces a comprehensive set of tools to help explain and analyse the power of written texts examines a wide variety of real texts and provides a wealth of practical worked examples
Author Biography
LESLEY JEFFRIES is Head of English at the University of Huddersfield.
Table of Contents
| Series editors' preface | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Background to Critical Stylistics | p. 4 |
| Naming and Describing | p. 17 |
| Representing Actions/Events/States | p. 37 |
| Equating and Contrasting | p. 51 |
| Exemplifying and Enumerating | p. 66 |
| Prioritizing | p. 77 |
| Implying and Assuming | p. 93 |
| Negating | p. 106 |
| Hypothesizing | p. 114 |
| Presenting Others' Speech and Thoughts | p. 130 |
| Representing Time, Space and Society | p. 146 |
| Appendix - Commentaries on Exercises | p. 159 |
| Notes | p. 186 |
| Bibliography | p. 189 |
| Index | p. 195 |
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