Language and Style

DAN McINTYRE is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research interests are in literary and non-literary stylistics, corpus linguistics, and the history of the English language. He has published numerous articles on a range of international journals including Language and Literature, ICAME Journal, Style, Journal of Literary Semantics and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. He is the author of Point of View in Plays (John Benjamins, 2006) and History of English: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge, 2008). He is currently working (with Leslie Jeffries) on a book on stylistics for Cambridge University Press. BEATRIX BUSSE is an Assistant Professor and teaches English Linguistics at the Anglistisches Seminar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. She studied English and History at Osnabrueck and Keele(UK) and was a visiting researcher in Birmingham (UK), Stratford (UK), and Lancaster (UK). She has been a visiting fellow of the British Academy (2007).  Her scholarly interests include the History of English, (historical pragmatics), Systemic-Functional Grammmar, Shakespeare Studies, stylistics, narratology, ecolinguistics, as well as e-learning and e-teaching.  She has published articles in a range of international journals, such as Language and Literature, Journal of Historical Pragmatics and Journal of Literary Semantics. Her doctoral dissertation is an investigation of Vocactive Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare and was published with Benjamins in 2006. One of her current research projects, in which she is cooperating with Prof. Mick Short from Lancaster University (UK) is on speech, writing and thought presentation in 19th century English texts.

• Introduction; D.McIntyre & B.BussePART I: PRELIMINARIESAnalysing Literature Through Language; G.LeechRecent Trends in New Historical Stylistics; B.BusseMethodologies for Stylistic Analysis: Practices and Pedagogies; R.CarterPART II: THE STYLISTICS OF POETRYThe Stylistics of Poetry: Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners'; K.WalesForegrounding; W.van PeerA Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk Roosting'; P.Verdonk'The Unprofessionals': Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems; L.JeffriesText Worlds in Poetry; E.SeminoPublic House Confidence: The Indispensability of Sound Patterns; T.BarneyPART III: THE STYLISTICS OF DRAMAThe Stylistics of Drama: Universal Elements; M.MunkeltDialogue and Characterisation in Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs': A Corpus Stylistic Analysis; D.McIntyre'See Better, Lear?' See Lear Better! A Corpus-Based Pragma-Stylistic Investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear; D.Bousfield & D.ArcherActivity Types, Incongruity and Humour in Dramatic Discourse; D.McIntyre & J.CulpepperPART IV: THE STYLISTICS OF NARRATIVE FICTIONThe Stylistics of Narrative Fiction; D.ShenAuthorial Style; D.Hoover2D and 3D Visualization of Stance in Popular Fiction; L.L.OpasHänninen & T.SeppänenPoint of View; P.SimpsonThe Intrinsic Importance of Sentence-Type and Clause-Type to Narrative Effect: Or, How Alice Munro's 'Circle of Prayer' Gets Started; M.ToolanDetective Fiction, Plot Construction and Reader Manipulation: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide'; C.Emmott & M.AlexanderNarration and Metaphor; M.FludernikWmatrix, Key-Concepts and the Narrators in Julian Barnes' 'Talking it Over'; B.WalkerWriting Presentation, The Epistolary Novel and Free Indirect Thought; J.Bray'Appeased By The Certitude': The Quiet Disintegration of the Paranoid Mind in 'The Mustache'; J.GavinsThe Eleventh Checksheet of the Apocalypse; P.StockwellMultimodality: Extending the Stylistic Toolkit; N.NorgaardCorpus Approaches to Narrative Fiction; M.MahlbergStylistics, Linguistics and Literature: A Short Afterword; G.HallReferencesIndex.

'This book will be widely used both as a reference work and as a textbook in university courses. It provides students and researchers with one of the most comprehensive introductions to the field of stylistics, describing the goals and methods of stylistics as applied to poetry, drama, and fiction' - Professor Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University