The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics

Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory. Placing stylistics in its intellectual and international context, each chapter includes a detailed illustrative example and case study of stylistic practice, with arguments and methods open to examination, replication and constructive critical discussion. As an accessible guide to the theory and practice of stylistics, it will equip the reader with a clear understanding of the ethos and principles of the discipline, as well as with the capacity and confidence to engage in stylistic analysis. Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Series page 4 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 Figures 9 Contributors 11 Acknowledgements 18 1 Introduction 19 Part I The discipline of stylistics 29 2 The theory and philosophy of stylistics 31 3 The stylistic tool-kit: methods and sub-disciplines 50 4 Quantitative methods in literary linguistics 64 5 Stylistics as rhetoric 81 6 Stylistics as applied linguistics 95 7 Stylistics as literary criticism 105 Part II Literary concepts and stylistics 119 8 Genre 121 9 Intertextuality and allusion 135 10 Production and intentionality 150 11 Characterisation 167 12 Voice 183 13 Narrative 197 14 Defamiliarisation 214 15 Intensity and texture in imagery 230 Part III Techniques of style 247 16 Phonostylistics and the written text 249 17 Grammatical configuration 267 18 Semantic prosody 281 19 Action and event 299 20 Pragmatics and inference 318 21 Metaphor and style 333 22 Foregrounding, burying and plot construction 347 23 Analysing dialogue 362 24 Atmosphere and tone 378 Part IV The contextual experience of style 393 25 Iconicity 395 26 Ethics 411 27 Fictionality and ontology 426 28 Emotions, feelings and stylistics 442 29 Narrative structure 457 30 Performance 474 31 Interpretation 485 32 A portrait of historical stylistics 503 Part V Extensions of stylistics 519 33 Media stylistics 521 34 Advertising culture 538 35 Political style 554 36 The stylistics of relationships 576 37 Stylistics in translation 591 38 The stylistics of everyday talk 608 39 Coda: the practice of stylistics 625 References 634 Index 686 "The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory"-- Provided by publisher List of figures .............. The theory and philosophy of stylistics .............. methods and subdisciplines .............. Quantitative methods in literary linguistics .............. Michael Stubbs 5 Stylistics as rhetoric Craig Hamilton 6 Stylistics as applied linguistics .............. Beatrix Busse 9 Intertextuality and allusion PatrickColm Hogan 10 Production and intentionality Violeta Sotirova .............. Voice .............. Narrative ..............