Language Discourse and Literature

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p>