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"This book explores some of the developments in Stylistics since its pioneer, Roman Jakobson, identified the patterning of the message as the poetic function. It analyzes in turn Golding's ""Pincher Martin"", Rowling's ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"", Housman's ""A Shropshire Lad"", Elizabeth Jennings' poem ""One Flesh"", Harold Pinter's ""The Birthday Party"", Ishiguro's ""The Remains of the Day"", and a range of poems by John Donne. The analyses show how Jakobson's emphasis on the message gives way to emphasis on the code or on undermining the code (in the Golding and Donne chapters), on the context (in the Rowling and Golding chapters), on the reader's response (in the Housman chapter), on the relationship between the addresser's and the addressee's shared assumptions and their use of pragmatic principles (in the Pinter and Ishiguro chapters). The pivotal Jennings' chapter shows how these different stylistic perspectives can be applied variously to the same text. This collection of essays will be especially useful for students of Stylistics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level as it illustrates the use of a range of analytical tools: Systemic Functional Grammar's analysis of transitivity and theme; pragmatic theories of co-operation, politeness, presupposition and inferencing; and, conceptual metaphor theory. Additionally it demonstrates central stylistic concepts such as foregrounding, and how to analyse rhythmical, lexical, grammatical and semantic patterning."

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Author:   Andrew Goatly
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9781845539085

ISBN 10:   1845539087
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   24 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Developments in Stylistics CHAPTER 2: Lexico-grammar and Process in Golding's Pincher Martin CHAPTER 3: Corpus Linguistics, Systemic Functional Grammar and Literary Meaning: A Critical Analysis of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone CHAPTER 4: Marked Theme and its Interpretation in A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad CHAPTER 5: A Stylistic Analysis of Elizabeth Jennings' 'One Flesh': Poem as Product and Process CHAPTER 6: The Pragmatics of Co-operation and Politeness in Two Extracts from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party CHAPTER 7: The Limits of Politeness: A Butler's Pragmatic Dilemmas in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day CHAPTER 8: Conceptual Metaphor, Its Paradoxes, Modifications and Distortions in the Poetry of John Donne

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Andrew Goatly has considerable experience in teaching English language and literature in colleges and universities in the UK, Rwanda, Thailand, Austria, and Singapore. He is at present Professor in the English Department of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of three other books, The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997), Critical Reading and Writing (Routledge 2000) and Metaphor and Hidden Ideology (Benjamins 2007).

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