Contents
Introduction 1
PART I Historical perspectives in stylistics 9
1 Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics 11
2 Formalist stylistics 31
3 Functionalist stylistics 45
4 Reader response criticism and stylistics 68
PART II Core issues in stylistics 85
5 The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics 87
6 (New) historical stylistics 101
7 Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory 118
8 Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle 136
9 Stylistics and relevance theory 155
10 Stylistics, point of view and modality 175
11 Stylistics and narratology 191
12 Metaphor and stylistics 206
13 Speech and thought presentation in stylistics 222
PART III Contemporary topics in stylistics 237
14 Pedagogical stylistics 239
15 Stylistics, drama and performance 253
16 Schema theory in stylistics 268
17 Stylistics and text world theory 284
18 Stylistics and blending 297
19 Cognitive poetics 313
20 Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics 329
21 Feminist stylistics 346
22 Literary pragmatics and stylistics 362
23 Corpus stylistics 378
24 Stylistics and translation 393
25 Critical stylistics 408
PART IV Emerging and future trends in stylistics 421
26 Creative writing and stylistics 423
27 Stylistics and real readers 440
28 Stylistics and film 455
29 Multimodality and stylistics 471
30 Stylistics and comics 485
31 Stylistics and hypertext fiction 500
32 Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience 516
Index 531