Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students Book

A	Introduction : key concepts in stylistics	1
1	What is stylistics?	2
2	Stylistics and levels of language	5
3	Grammar and style	9
4	Rhythm and metre	14
5	Narrative stylistics	18
6	Style as choice	22
7	Style and point of view	26
8	Representing speech and thought	30
9	Dialogue and discourse	34
10	Cognitive stylistics	38
11	Metaphor and metonymy	41
12	Stylistics and verbal humour	45
B	Development : doing stylistics	49
1	Developments in stylistics	50
2	Levels of language at work : an example from poetry	53
3	Sentence styles : development and illustration	59
4	Interpreting patterns of sound	66
5	Developments in structural narratology	70
6	Style and transitivity	74
7	Approaches to point of view	77
8	Techniques of speech and thought presentation	80
9	Dialogue in drama	85
10	Developments in cognitive stylistics	89
11	Styles of metaphor	92
C	Exploration : investigating style	97
1	Is there a "literary language"?	98
2	Style, register and dialect	102
3	Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism	108
4	Styles in a single poem : an exploration	112
5	A sociolinguistic model of narrative	114
6	Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre	119
7	Exploring point of view in narrative fiction	123
8	A workshop on speech and thought presentation	130
9	Exploring dialogue	136
10	Cognitive stylistics at work	139
11	Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts	142
12	Extension : readings in stylistics	147
	How to use these readings	148
1	Language and literature	148
2	Style and verbal play	158
3	Teaching grammar and style	161
4	Sound, style and onomatopoeia	168
5	Style variation in narrative	176
6	Transitivity at work	185
7	Point of view	195
8	Speech and thought presentation	195
9	Literature as discourse : the literary speech situation	196
10	Cognitive stylistics : the poetry of Emily Dickinson	201
11	Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor	211
12	Style and verbal humour	217