Table of Contents

A Introduction: key concepts in stylistics

1 What is stylistics?
2 Stylistics and levels of language
3 Grammar and style
4 Rhythm and metre
5 Narrative stylistics
6 Style as choice
7 Style and point of view
8 Representing speech and thought
9 Dialogue and discourse
10 Cognitive stylistics
11 Metaphor and metonymy
12 Stylistics and verbal humour

B Development: doing stylistics

1 Developments in stylistics
2 Levels of language at work: an example from poetry
3 Sentence styles: development and illustration
4 Interpreting patterns of sound
5 Developments in structural narratology
6 Style and transitivity
7 Approaches to point of view
8 Techniques of speech and thought presentation
9 Dialogue in drama
10 Developments in cognitive stylistics
11 Styles of metaphor

C Exploration: investigating style

1 Is there a ‘literary language’?
2 Style, register and dialect
3 Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism
4 Styles in a single poem: an exploration
5 A sociolinguistic model of narrative
6 Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre
7 Exploring point of view in narrative fiction
8 A workshop on speech and thought presentation
9 Exploring dialogue
10 Cognitive stylistics at work
11 Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts

D Extension: readings in stylistics

How to use these readings
1 Language and literature (Roger Fowler and F. W. Bateson)
2 Style and verbal play (Katie Wales)
3 Teaching grammar and style (Ronald Carter)
4 Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge)
5 Style variation in narrative (Mick Short)
6 Transitivity at work: a feminist-stylistic application (Deirdre Burton)
7 Point of view
8 Speech and thought presentation
9 Literature as discourse: the literary speech situation (Mary Louise Pratt)
10 Cognitive stylistics: the poetry of Emily Dickinson (Margaret Freeman)
11 Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor (Peter Stockwell)
12 Style and verbal humour (Walter Nash)

Further reading
References
Primary sources
Glossarial index