Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose

Abstract

Preface: how to use this bookAuthor's acknowledgementsPublisher's acknowledgements 1. Who is stylistics? 2. More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism 3. Style variation in texts 4. Sound, meaning and effect 5. Rhythm and metre in the reading of poetry 6. Drama: the conversational genre 7. The meaning of speech acts, turn-taking and politeness 8. Assumptions, presuppositions and the inferring of meaning 9. Fictional prose and point of view 10. Speech and thought presentation 11. Prose style 12. Bringing it all together Appendix: a list of English phonemes References Index