Description
This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and balladic poetry; speech presentation; the interactive properties of metre; the communicative context of author/reader. Among the texts examined are novels, poetry and drama by major twentieth-century writers such as Joyce, Auden, Pinter and Hopkins, as well as examples from Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.
Each chapter has a wide range of exercises for practical analysis, an extensive glossary and a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading. The book will be particularly useful to undergraduate students of English and applied linguistics and advanced students of modern languages or English as a foreign language.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Changing the Guard at Elsinore 2 Phatic Communion and Fictional Dialogue 3 Poetry and Conversation: An Essay in Discourse Analysis 4 Polyphony in Hard Times 5 Dickens’s Social Semiotic: The Modal Analysis of Ideological Structure 6 Semantic Relational Structuring in Milton’ s Areopagitica 7 Discourse-Centred Stylistics: A Way Forward 8 Discourse Analysis and the Analysis of Drama 9 Politeness Phenomena in Ionesco’s The Lesson 10 Analysing Conversation in Fiction: an Example from Joyce’s Portrait 11 Subject Construction as Stylistic Strategy in Gerard Manley Hopkins 12 Metre and Discourse 13 ‘Working Effects with Words’—Whose Words?: Stylistics and Reader Intertextuality
