A Dictionary of Stylistics

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A DICTIONARY OF
Now available for the first time in paperback, A Dictionary of Stylistics is the major reference work of the terminology used in stylistics together with its related disciplines of discourse analysis, text linguistics, literary theory and literary criticism. Comprehensive and easy to use, it contains over 600 alphabetically-listed entries drawing widely on areas such as sociolinguistics, semiotics, grammar, communication theory, poetics and traditional rhetoric.
Over the last 20 years there have been enormous advances in stylistics. These have given rise to an increasingly complex, ambiguous and overlapping number of terms surrounding the subject. Katié Wales provides a concise, practical and helpful guide, using numerous quota-tions and cross-references to build up the reader's knowledge and understanding of this important and expanding area of study. An extensive bibliography provides the basis for the reader to pursue his or her interest in the subject... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A DICTIONARY OF
Now available for the first time in paperback, A Dictionary of Stylistics is the major reference work of the terminology used in stylistics together with its related disciplines of discourse analysis, text linguistics, literary theory and literary criticism. Comprehensive and easy to use, it contains over 600 alphabetically-listed entries drawing widely on areas such as sociolinguistics, semiotics, grammar, communication theory, poetics and traditional rhetoric.
Over the last 20 years there have been enormous advances in stylistics. These have given rise to an increasingly complex, ambiguous and overlapping number of terms surrounding the subject. Katié Wales provides a concise, practical and helpful guide, using numerous quota-tions and cross-references to build up the reader's knowledge and understanding of this important and expanding area of study. An extensive bibliography provides the basis for the reader to pursue his or her interest in the subject further.
A Dictionary of Stylistics is an ideál reference work and handbook for stylistic analysis; students and teachers of linguistics, English language and literature, and English as a foreign and second language, will fmd it an invaluable source of information and explanation.
Katié Wales is a Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
This title is published in Longman's Studies in Language and Linguistics series.
Cover illustration by John Clementson Vissza