Description
Book SynopsisRiddle: Why is a telescope like a bad excuse?
Answer: Because anyone can see through it.
The authors of this book would like to help anyone - but particularly students of English - to see through language, whether as the instrument of perception or as the evasive code. They write about texts, and the making of texts, and how texts are made to carry various kinds of meaning; and the topics they choose to write about range from the lexicon of car maintenance manuals to the role of grammatical modality in literary criticism. Their aim is to help students who may have little experience of linguistic studies to develop the articulate awareness of language that may subsequently be of service to them.
The book has something to say about aesthetics, but it is not addressed to aesthetes; and much to say about the functions of language. One of its aims is to be of value to students and teachers of English by providing close and extensive readings of non-lite
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"Fills a gap in the field of stylistics and satisfies the needs of scholars for a better knowledge of how to face text analysis." Journal of Literary Semantics
"A highly commendable work combining both textual analysis and composition"Moderna Sprak, Spring 1999
Table of ContentsPreface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Language and Style.
2. Language, Style and Literariness.
3. Sample Cases.
4. Style, Composition and Creativeness.
Exercises.
Further Reading.
Bibliography.
Glossarial Index.
Index of Extracts.
