Exploring the language of poems, plays and prose / Mick Short.
Material type: TextSeries: Learning about languagePublisher: London ; New York : Longman, 1996Description: xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0582291305
- 9780582291300
- 808
- PE1421. S5 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-385) and index.
Preface: how to use this book -- Author's acknowledgements -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- 1. Who is stylistics? -- 2. More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism -- 3. Style variation in texts -- 4. Sound, meaning and effect -- 5. Rhythm and metre in the reading of poetry -- 6. Drama: the conversational genre -- 7. The meaning of speech acts, turn-taking and politeness -- 8. Assumptions, presuppositions and the inferring of meaning -- 9. Fictional prose and point of view -- 10. Speech and thought presentation -- 11. Prose style -- 12. Bringing it all together -- Appendix: a list of English phonemes -- References -- Index.
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