This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience. Issues that are covered include:
- historical perspectives, centring on rhetoric, formalism and functionalism.
- the elements of stylistic analysis, including foregrounding, relevance theory, conversation analysis, narrative, metaphor, speech and thought presentation and point of view.
- current areas of influential research such as cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics, critical stylistics, multimodality, creative writing and reader response.
- four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children’s literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues. All of these new chapters are written by leading researchers in their respective fields.
Each of the 33 chapters in this volume is written by a specialist. Each chapter provides an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on.
The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics, second edition is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in this area.
Introduction
Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience
Michael Burke
PART I: Historical perspectives in stylistics
1. Rhetoric and Poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics
Michael Burke
2. Formalist stylistics
Michael Burke & Kristy Evers
3. Functionalist stylistics
Patricia Canning
4. Reader response criticism and stylistics
Jennifer Riddle Harding
PART II: Core issues in stylistics
5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics
Christiana Gregoriou
6. (New) Historical stylistics
Beatrix Busse
7. Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory
Derek Bousfield
8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle
Marina Lambrou
9. Stylistics and relevance theory
Billy Clark
10. Stylistics, point of view and modality
Clara Neary
11. Stylistics and narratology
Dan Shen
12. Metaphor and stylistics
Szilvia Csábi
13. Speech and thought presentation in stylistics
Joe Bray
PART III: Contemporary topics in stylistics
14. Pedagogical stylistics
Geoff Hall
15. Stylistics, drama and performance
Andrea Macrae
16. Schema theory in stylistics
Cathy Emmott, Marc Alexander & Agnes Marszalek
17. Stylistics and text world theory
Ernestine Lahey
18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar
Chloe Harrison
19. Cognitive poetics
Margaret Freeman
20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics
Olivia Fiahlo & Sonia Zyngier
21. Feminist stylistics
Rocio Montoro
22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics
Chantelle Warner
23. Corpus stylistics
Michaela Mahlberg
24. Stylistics and translation
Jean Boase-Beier
25. Critical stylistics
Lesley Jeffries
PART IV: Emerging and future trends in stylistics
26. Creative writing and stylistics
Jeremy Scott
27. Stylistics and real readers
David Peplow & Ron Carter
28. Stylistics and film
Michael Toolan
29. Multimodality and stylistics
Nina Nørgaard
30. Forensic stylistics
Patricia Canning
31. Stylistics and Children’s Literature-
Marcello Giovanelli
32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health
Hazel Price
33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience
Patrick Colm Hogan
Index
Biography
Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University. He is the author of Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (Routledge, 2011), and a co-author of Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts (Routledge, 2022).
"The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics offers a wide-ranging and practical resource for students and researchers of the subject. Each chapter is engagingly written and covers a key topic in contemporary stylistics. A must-have guide to the study of language and style."
Professor Joanna Gavins, Chair in English Language and Literature, School of English, University of Sheffield, UK
Praise for the first edition
"This is an indispensable beginner’s guide to stylistics, packed full of practical advice and demonstrating the breadth of the discipline in its coverage of everything from the origin of stylistics in classical rhetoric to current advances in cognitive neuroscience."
Professor Dan McIntyre, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden
