Katie Wales, Professor of Modern English Language, University of Leeds

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 440 pp

ISBN-10:	0582317371
ISBN-13:	9780582317376

Our Price: £32.99
Status: Instock
Published: 28 Feb 2001

Stylistics is the study of styles of writing in texts from literary style to the style of a lawyer in giving evidence. The first edition of A Dictionary of Stylistics was published in 1990 and covers the core terms in stylistics and related disciplines of discourse analysis, literary theory and criticism, and text linguistics. Stylistics has continued to develop since the first edition was published, with new theories and approaches being absorbed from pragmatics; discourse analysis; relevance theory and cognitive linguistics, which are taken into account in this new edition. Katie Wales has rigorously updated the book, included many additional new terms to cover the new areas and has added an additional reading section.

• Area of growing importance - the National Curriculum now lays greater stress on the study of English Language in relation to English Literature
• Fully comprehensive, covering core terms and all related new theories and approaches e.g. discourse analysis, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics
• Ideal reference work for students and lecturers of stylistic analysis, general linguistics, English language and English literature
• Numerous quotations included
• Comprehensive bibliography
• Author is well recognised as being a leading light in this field