Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

<p>This second edition of <i>The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics</i> provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience. Issues that are covered include:</p><ul> <li>historical perspectives, centring on rhetoric, formalism and functionalism.</li> <li>the elements of stylistic analysis, including foregrounding, relevance theory, conversation analysis, narrative, metaphor, speech and thought presentation and point of view.</li> <li>current areas of influential research such as cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics, critical stylistics, multimodality, creative writing and reader response.</li> <li>four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children’s literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues. All of these new chapters are written by leading researchers in their respective fields.</li> </ul><p>Each of the 33 chapters in this volume is written by a specialist. Each chapter provides an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on.</p><p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics</em>, second edition is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in this area.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience</p><p><b>PART 1</b></p><p><b>Historical perspectives in stylistics</b></p><p>1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics</p><p>2. Formalist stylistics</p><p>3. Functionalist stylistics</p><p>4. Reader response criticism and stylistics</p><p><b>PART II</b></p><p><b>Core issues in stylistics</b></p><p>5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics</p><p>6. (New) historical stylistics</p><p>7.Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory</p><p>8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle</p><p>9. Stylistics and relevance theory</p><p>10. Stylistics, point of view and modality</p><p>11. Stylistics and narratology</p><p>12. Metaphor and stylistics</p><p>13. Speech and thought presentation in stylistics</p><p><strong>PART III</strong></p><p><strong>Contemporary topics in stylistics</strong></p><p>14<strong>.</strong> Pedagogical stylistics</p><p>15. Stylistics, drama and performance</p><p>16. Schema theory in stylistics</p><p>17. Stylistics and text world theory</p><p>18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar</p><p>19. Cognitive poetics</p><p>20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics</p><p>21. Feminist stylistics</p><p>22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics</p><p>23. Corpus stylistics</p><p>24. Stylistics and translation</p><p>25.Critical stylistics</p><p><b>PART IV</b></p><p><b>Emerging and future trends in stylistics</b></p><p>26. Creative writing and stylistics</p><p>27. Stylistics and real readers</p><p>28. Stylistics and film</p><p>29. Multimodality and stylistics</p><p>30. Forensic stylistics</p><p>31. Stylistics and Children’s Literature</p><p>32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health</p><p>33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience</p><p><i>Index</i></p>