Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners

GREG WATSON is a Senior Lecturer in the Foreign Languages Department of the University of Joensuu, Eastern Finland. He is well published in the fields of stylistics and language contact studies. SONIA ZYNGIER is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Postgraduate Programme of Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has published widely on literary awareness, stylistics and corpus analysis of literary discourse.

• Foreword; R.Carter Preface Notes on Contributors PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Stylistics in Second Language Contexts: A Critical Perspective; G.Hall On Teaching Literature Itself; P.Stockwell PART 2: NEW APPROACHES When the Students Become the Teachers: A Practical Pedagogy; J.Gavins & J.Hodson "The Shudder of the Dying Day in Every Blade of Grass". Whose Words? Voice, Veracity and the Question of Realism; J.Mcrae Analysing Literature Through Films; R.Montoro Discourse Stylistics and Detective Fiction: A Case Study; U.Clark PART 3: CORPUS STYLISTICS Corpus Stylistics as Discovery Procedure; D.E.Hardy Literary Worlds as Collocation; B.Louw Investigating Student Reactions to a Web-based Stylistics Course in Different National and Educational Settings; M.Short, B.Busse & P.Plummer PART 4: STYLISTICS, GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE From Syntax to Schema: Teaching Flannery O'Connor in the Persian Gulf; D.L.Gugin Non-Standard Grammar in the Teaching of Language and Style; P.Simpson Language Teaching Through Gricean Glasses; J.Zerkowitz PART 5: AWARENESS AND COGNITION Attention Directed Literary Education: An Empirical Investigation; D.I.Hanauer What Reading Does to Readers. Stereotypes, Foregrounding and Language Learning; W.Van Peer & A.Nousi Revisiting Literary Awareness; S.Zyngier, O.Fialho & P.A.do Prado Rios Index