TY  - BOOK
AU  - Short,Mick
TI  - Exploring the language of poems, plays and prose
T2  - Learning about language
SN  - 0582291305
AV  - PE1421. S5 1996
U1  - 808 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Longman
KW  - English language
KW  - Style
KW  - Versification
N1  - 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
ER  -