A Dictionary of Stylistics draws material from stylistics and a range of related disciplines such as sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and traditional rhetoric, the fully revised Dictionary of Stylistics provides a valuable reference work for students and teachers of stylistics, as well as critical discourse analysis and literary criticism.
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'...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... 'English Today
'...an impressive single-author reference work... 'English
'...Not only is this volume indispensible for anyone, students or academics, working in any field related to stylistics, it is, like all the best dictionaries, a very good read...' Le Lingue del Mondo
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Reviews of the first edition:
'...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... '(English Today)
'...an impressive single-author reference work... '(English)
'...Not only is this volume indispensible for anyone, students or academics, working in any field related to stylistics, it is, like all the best dictionaries, a very good read...' (Le Lingue del Mondo)
Over the past ten years there have been striking advances in stylistics. These have given rise to new terms and to revised thinking of concepts and re-definitions of terms. A Dictionary of Stylistics, 2nd Edition contains over 600 alphabeticlly listed entries: fully revised since the first edition it contains many new entries.
Drawing material from stylistics and a range of related disciplines such as sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and traditional rhetoric, the revised Dictionary of Stylistics provides a valuable reference work for students and teachers of stylistics, as well as critical discourse analysis and literary criticism. The new edition explains terminology clearly and concisely, and unravels many ambiguities. At the same time it provides a general picture of the nature, insights and methodologies of stylistics.
With numerous quotations; explanations for many basic terms from grammar and rhetoric; and a comprehensive bibliography, this is a unique reference work and handbook for stylistic and textual analysis. Students and teachers at secondary and tertiary levels of English language and literature or English as a foreign or second language, and of linguistics, will find it an invaluable source of information.
Katie Wales is Professor of Modern English Language, University of Leeds and Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts.
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This review is from: A Dictionary of Stylistics, Second Edition (Paperback)
This is an excellent resource for anybody interested in stylistics, linguistics or anybody actively involved in studying or practicing creative writing. Laid out in alphabetical order, it gives etemology, the various definitions of each term and examples of usage. Great to dip in and out of and good for sourcing quotes and researching key words for essays, the only real drawback is the sometimes confusing use of terminology in the definitions. For example, I pick up "A Dictionary of Stylistics" to look up a keyword or term and find another three keywords I'm not familiar with in the definition, and so I look up *those* key words and find for each of those terms *another* three that I don't know etc. etc. Once I get started I generally find myself looking up so many different keywords that I end up getting totally side-tracked. The more of it you read however, the more it makes sense, so I suppose it's a learning curve. I like it, a lot, and I've ordered a copy.
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A really useful book on stylistics.,
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This review is from: A Dictionary of Stylistics (3rd Edition) (Longman Linguistics) (Paperback)
I teach at a University and I regularly use this book for my own research as well as for classes. This new edition is even better than the last one.
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