LESLEY JEFFRIES is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield.  She was Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association from 2007 to 2009 and is the author of books including Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English (Palgrave 2006) and Textual Construction of the Female Body (Palgrave 2007).

• IntroductionThe Background to Critical StylisticsNaming and DescribingRepresenting Actions/Events/StatesEquating and ContrastingExemplifying and EnumeratingPrioritisingImplying and AssumingNegatingHypothesisingPresenting Others' Speech and ThoughtsRepresenting Time, Space and SocietyAppendix Commentaries on ExercisesBibliographyIndex.

'Perfectly pitched to meet the needs of students in courses such as English functional grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, advanced composition and critical discourse analysis. Jeffries's book is a long needed synthesis of linguistic stylistics and critical discourse analysis; it provides excellent background reading for advanced research on such issues as negation, speech and thought presentation, systemic grammar, and presupposition.'- Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, USA

LESLEY JEFFRIES is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield.  She was Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association from 2007 to 2009 and is the author of books including Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English (Palgrave 2006) and Textual Construction of the Female Body (Palgrave 2007).

• IntroductionThe Background to Critical StylisticsNaming and DescribingRepresenting Actions/Events/StatesEquating and ContrastingExemplifying and EnumeratingPrioritisingImplying and AssumingNegatingHypothesisingPresenting Others' Speech and ThoughtsRepresenting Time, Space and SocietyAppendix Commentaries on ExercisesBibliographyIndex.

'Perfectly pitched to meet the needs of students in courses such as English functional grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, advanced composition and critical discourse analysis. Jeffries's book is a long needed synthesis of linguistic stylistics and critical discourse analysis; it provides excellent background reading for advanced research on such issues as negation, speech and thought presentation, systemic grammar, and presupposition.'- Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, USA

LESLEY JEFFRIES is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield.  She was Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association from 2007 to 2009 and is the author of books including Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English (Palgrave 2006) and Textual Construction of the Female Body (Palgrave 2007).

• IntroductionThe Background to Critical StylisticsNaming and DescribingRepresenting Actions/Events/StatesEquating and ContrastingExemplifying and EnumeratingPrioritisingImplying and AssumingNegatingHypothesisingPresenting Others' Speech and ThoughtsRepresenting Time, Space and SocietyAppendix Commentaries on ExercisesBibliographyIndex.

'Perfectly pitched to meet the needs of students in courses such as English functional grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, advanced composition and critical discourse analysis. Jeffries's book is a long needed synthesis of linguistic stylistics and critical discourse analysis; it provides excellent background reading for advanced research on such issues as negation, speech and thought presentation, systemic grammar, and presupposition.'- Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, USA