Language, discourse, and literature: An introductory reader in discourse stylistics - Softcover

Ronald Carter; Paul Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044450060 ISBN 13: 9780044450061

Publisher: Routledge, 1988

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0044450060
• ISBN 13: 9780044450061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298