Preface 1
Part Ⅰ Basics 2
Chapter One Introduction:Defining the Basics 2
1.1 Style 3
1.2 Distinctiveness and foregrounding 11
1.3 Literariness 17
1.4 Dualism vs monism 23
1.5 Style and ideology 27
1.6 Stylistics 30
Tasks 37
Chapter Two Analytical Procedures 40
2.1 Replicability 40
2.2 Basic levels of analysis 44
2.3 Patterning or regularity 46
2.4 The use of theories 49
Tasks 51
Part Ⅱ Poetic Discourse 60
Chapter Three Sound Patterning 60
3.1 Poetic textual convention 60
3.2 Sound patterning in the traditional poetic convention 67
3.3 Analyzing sound patterns:metrics 72
3.4 Analyzing sound patterns:rhyme scheme 84
3.5 An alternative approach to the analysis of sound patterning 87
Tasks 98
Chapter Four Sound Symbolism 101
4.1 Sound and meaning 101
4.2 Genre-signaling function 106
4.3 Sound symbolism 108
4.3.1 Imitative:onomatopoeia 110
4.3.2 Associative:phonaesthesia 115
Tasks 126
Chapter Five Grammar in Poetry 131
5.1 Grammar and poetry 131
5.2 Grammatical theories and stylistic analysis of poetry 137
5.3 Poetic use of grammar 142
5.3.1 Word level 143
5.3.2 Syntactic level 150
5.3.3 Grammatical relations 157
5.3.4 Parallelism 163
Tasks 170
Chapter Six Meaning in Poetry 175
6.1 Meaning in poetry 175
6.2 Figurative language 178
6.3 Analyzing common figures of speech 184
6.4 Linguistic analysis of the meaning of a poem 202
6.4.1 Semantic relatedness 202
6.4.2 Speech act 207
Tasks 212
Part Ⅲ Prose Discourse 220
Chapter Seven Point of View 220
7.1 Point of view:perspectual or conceptual 220
7.2 Point of view and perceptual salience 223
7.2.1 Kuno's empathy hypothesis 223
7.2.2 van Dijk's"normal ordering"hypothesis 228
7.2.3 Simpson's four categories 236
7.3 Point of view and conceptual salience 242
Tasks 259
Chapter Eight Point of View in Narrative Discourse 260
8.1 Point of view and narration 260
8.2 First person point of view 262
8.3 Third person point of view 269
8.4 Shifting points of view 274
8.5 Friedman's classification 276
Tasks 277
Chapter Nine Reader Positioning and Reading Positions 281
9.1 Hypotheses on reading positions and positioning the reader 281
9.2 Hall's theory on reading positions 287
9.3 Reader positioning 296
Tasks 303
Chapter Ten Reader Positioning Strategies:Lexical and Syntactic Signaling 307
10.1 Lexical signaling:semantic fields and collocation 308
10.2 Analyzing lexical signalling 312
10.3 Syntactic signaling:transitivity analysis 315
10.4 Analyzing syntactic signaling 322
Tasks 326
Chapter Eleven Intertextuality 331
11.1 Hypotheses on intertextuality 331
11.2 Insertion:speech presentation 338
11.2.1 Ways of presenting speech 338
11.2.2 A case study 346
11.2.3 Ways of source presentation 348
11.3 Assimilation 356
Tasks 362
Chapter Twelve Multi-modality and Reader Positioning 369
12.1 Text and multi-modality 369
12.2 Theories on multi-modality 375
12.2.1 The fallacy"the camera does not lie" 375
12.2.2 Roland Barthes'anchorage theory 377
12.2.3 Kress and van Leeuwen's image grammar 382
12.3 Analyzing multi-modal texts 383
Tasks 395
References 404