Critical Stylistics - Lesley Jeffries Kartoniert (TB)

This original and engaging textbook is concerned with stylistic choices and the textual analysis which can illuminate the choices that a text producer has made. It combines the strengths of two approaches - critical discourse analysis and stylistics - to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts. In so doing it introduces a comprehensive set of tools which will help readers to explain and analyse the power of written texts. Each chapter focuses on a particular linguistic feature - such as naming and describing prioritizing negating and hypothesizing - gives an overview of its a rgument and then explains the technical aspects of the feature along with a wealth of examples.This book will be ideal reading for students on a wide range of courses including stylistics discourse analysis critical discourse analysis English functional grammar and advanced composition.