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Language in literature : style and foregrounding / Geoffrey Leech.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 222 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780582051096
  • 0582051096
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410 LEE-L
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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