Language in literature : style and foregrounding /
Leech, Geoffrey N.
Language in literature : style and foregrounding / Geoffrey Leech. - 1st ed. - U.K.: Pearson Education Limited, 2008. - xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and index.
Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric -- 'This bread I break' : language and interpretation -- Literary criticism and linguistic description -- Stylistics -- Music in metre : 'sprung rhythm' in Victorian poetry -- Pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and the celebrated letter' -- Stylistics and functionalism -- Pragmatic principles in Shaw's You never can tell -- Style in interior monologue : Virginia Woolf's 'The mark on the wall' -- Work in progress in corpus stylistics : a method of finding 'deviant' or 'key' features of texts, and its application to 'The mark on the wall' -- Closing statement : text, interpretation, history and education.
9780582051096 0582051096
2008016971
English language--Style.
PE1421 / .L37 2008
808/.042 / L483
Language in literature : style and foregrounding / Geoffrey Leech. - 1st ed. - U.K.: Pearson Education Limited, 2008. - xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and index.
Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric -- 'This bread I break' : language and interpretation -- Literary criticism and linguistic description -- Stylistics -- Music in metre : 'sprung rhythm' in Victorian poetry -- Pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and the celebrated letter' -- Stylistics and functionalism -- Pragmatic principles in Shaw's You never can tell -- Style in interior monologue : Virginia Woolf's 'The mark on the wall' -- Work in progress in corpus stylistics : a method of finding 'deviant' or 'key' features of texts, and its application to 'The mark on the wall' -- Closing statement : text, interpretation, history and education.
9780582051096 0582051096
2008016971
English language--Style.
PE1421 / .L37 2008
808/.042 / L483