Table of Contents

Preface
Section 1
Survey
1: The concept of style
Features of style: a newspaper headline
Style as motivated choice
Style in context
Style and persuasive effect
Conclusion
2: Style in literature
Text type and style
Text type and function
Conclusion
3: Text and discourse
The nature of text
The nature of discourse
Textual and contextual meaning
The headline revisited
The context of literary discourse
The communicative situation in literary discourse
Conclusion
4: Perspectives on meaning
The double meaning of perspective
Perspective in narrative fiction
Stylistic markers of perspective and positioning
Deixis
Given and new information
Ideological perspective
Conclusion
5: The language of literary representation
Perspective in third-person narration
Speech and thought representation
Conclusion
6: Perspectives on literary interpretation
Literary criticism
Interpreting a complete poem
Substantiation by analysis
Literary interpretation revisited
Conclusion
7: Stylistics and ideological perspectives
Social reading and ideological postioning
Incorporation of literary criticism into linguistic criticism?
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
Conclusion
Section 2
Readings
Section 3
References
Section 4
Glossary

Promotional Information

This book deals with the study of style in language. By Peter Verdonk. Part of the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series.

Reviews

`… the book undoubtedly offers a valuable and practical guide to the subject matter.'
Patrick Studer, University College, Cork, Ireland
`The argument is well illustrated with commentary, sometimes detailed, on several poetic and prose texts, which provides insightful observations on textual features.'
Applied Linguistics Journal