Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience
PART 1
Historical perspectives in stylistics
1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics
2. Formalist stylistics
3. Functionalist stylistics
4. Reader response criticism and stylistics
PART II
Core issues in stylistics
5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics
6. (New) historical stylistics
7.Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory
8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle
9. Stylistics and relevance theory
10. Stylistics, point of view and modality
11. Stylistics and narratology
12. Metaphor and stylistics
13. Speech and thought presentation in stylistics
PART III
Contemporary topics in stylistics
14. Pedagogical stylistics
15. Stylistics, drama and performance
16. Schema theory in stylistics
17. Stylistics and text world theory
18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar
19. Cognitive poetics
20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics
21. Feminist stylistics
22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics
23. Corpus stylistics
24. Stylistics and translation
25.Critical stylistics
PART IV
Emerging and future trends in stylistics
26. Creative writing and stylistics
27. Stylistics and real readers
28. Stylistics and film
29. Multimodality and stylistics
30. Forensic stylistics
31. Stylistics and Children's Literature
32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health
33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience
Index
