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Exploring the language of poems, plays and prose / Mick Short.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Learning about languagePublisher: London ; New York : Longman, 1996Description: xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0582291305
  • 9780582291300
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808
LOC classification:
  • PE1421. S5 1996
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A285291B

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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