Table of Contents 1
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Style and Stylistics 8
1.1 Theories of Style 8
1.2 Stylistics：The Areas of Study 13
1.3 Stylistics：The Purpose of Study 16
1.4 The Major Models of Stylistics 19
2.1 Discourse Stylistics 41
Chapter 2 The Influence of Systemic-Functional Theory on Two Recent Stylistic Trends 41
2.2 Contextualized Stylistics 46
2.3 The Influence of Systemic Functional Theory on Discourse 53
Chapter 3 The Textual Function——With Particular Reference to Literary Exophora and Associative Cohesion 59
3.1 Theoretical Backgrounds 59
3.2 About Dubliners 62
3.3 Literary Exophora：Organizing the Parts into a Whole 64
3.4 The System of Cohension Applied in Dubliners 71
4.1 A Transitivity Analysis of“Eveline” 109
Chapter 4 The Ideational Function——With Particular Reference to Transitivity as Power Relations Between Conflicting Parties 109
4.2 Transitivity：Relations Between Conflicting Parties——Other Applications of Transitivity Analysis 125
4.3 Transitivity：Its Limitations as a Method of Stylis-tic Analysis 153
4.4 Summary 174
Chapter 5 The Interpersonal Function 177
5.1 Discussions About the Interpersonal Function in Systemic FunctionaI Stylistics 178
5.2 The Linguistic Units That Realize IC in Literary Narration 181
5.3 The Linguistic Units That Realize IC in Literary Dialogue 196
5.4 Summary 202
Chapter 6 Towards a New Model of Stylistics：Social-semiotic，Linguistic-semantic and Literary-psychological Stylistics 204
6.1 Introduction 204
6.2 The Philosophical Basis 205
6.3 The Three Systems of the Model 212
6.4 Relations between the Three Systems of the Model 231
Conclusion 237
Appendix：A Sample Analysis of a Paragraph from“Eveline” 241
Bibliography 249