Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose /

• Leech, Geoffrey N.
• Short, Mick.

• English fiction -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- History and criticism.
• English language -- Style
• Fiction -- Technique

• Pearson Longman,

• English language series

• 0582784093 (pbk.) :
• 9780582784093 (pbk.) :

• 19.99
• 19.99

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Foreword Introduction Part I: Approaches and methods 1. Style and Choice 2. Style, Text and Frequency 3. A Method of Analysis and some Examples 4. Levels of Style Part II: Aspects of style 5. Language and the Fictional World 6. Mind Style 7. The Rhetoric of Text 8. Discourse and Discourse Situation 9. Conversation in the Novel 10. Speech and Thought Presentation Passages and topics for further studyFurther readingBibliographyIndex of works discussedGeneral index

• Landmarks in linguistic thought II the Western tradition in the twentieth century
• Linguistic criticism
• Our masters voices the language and body language of politics
• Impoliteness in interaction
• English corpus linguistics an introduction
• Studies in the way of words
• Deixis in narrative a cognitive science perspective
• Cognitive poetics an introduction
• Textual construction of the female body a critical discourse approach
• Contemporary stylistics
• Pathways to language from fetus to adolescent
• Confrontation talk arguments asymmetries and power on talk radio
• Understanding syntax
• Introducing English semantics
• Reporting talk reported speech in interaction
• Media talk conversation analysis and the study of broadcasting
• Semantics
• Structuralist poetics structuralism linguistics and the study of literature
• Semantics
• history of the English language
• Seeing through language a guide to styles of English writing
• Vowels and consonants an introduction to the sounds of languages
• modern approach to English grammar an introduction to systemic grammar
• Thinking about language theories of English
• handbook of discourse analysis
• handbook of language variation and change
• Laughter in interaction
• Point of view in plays a cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text types
• Language and gender an advanced resource book
• introduction to phonetics and phonology
• Doing conversation analysis a practical guide
• introduction to the history of the English language
• High windows
• Language in literature style and foregrounding
• Understanding semantics
• introduction to conversation analysis
• Language in literature an introduction to stylistics
• Sequence organization in interaction
• course in phonetics
• Stylistics
• origins and development of the English Language
• Conversation analysis studies from the first generation
• Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory
• functional analysis of English a Hallidayan approach
• Practical phonetics and phonology a resource book for students
• Persuading people an introduction to rhetoric
• stories of English
• Analysing sentences an introduction to English syntax
• child language reader
• Projects in linguistics a practical guide to researching language
• Critical discourse analysis
• Introducing sociolinguistics
• Sociolinguistics the essential readings
• Style and sociolinguistic variation
• Semantics
• Conversation analysis and discourse analysis a comparative and critical introduction
• handbook of linguistics
• Meaning in language an introducation to semantics and pragmatics
• introduction to stylistics
• Meaning in interaction an introduction to pragmatics
• Language discourse and literature an introductory reader in discourse stylistics
• Stylistics a practical coursebook
• Dialectology
• dictionary of stylistics
• Understanding utterances
• Critical stylistics the power of English
• introduction to functional grammar
• Doing pragmatics
• news interview journalists and public figures on the air
• Narrative fiction contemporary poetics
• Phonological development the origins of language in the child
• Key concepts in language and linguistics
• handbook of pragmatics
• Describing language
• Gender and language theory and practice
• linguistic guide to English poetry
• Conversation analysis
• Narrative a critical linguistic introduction
• Ideologies of language
• childs learning of English
• Language as ideology
• Analysing newspapers an approach from critical discourse analysis
• How to do things with words the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955
• Language society and power an introduction
• Exploring the language of drama from text to context
• Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language
• Texts and practices readings in critical discourse analysis
• Stylistics a resource book for students
• Language development the essential readings
• Language and characterisation people in plays and other texts
• Understanding pragmatics
• language of humour
• Pragmatics an introduction
• Style in fiction a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose
• History of English
• Politeness some universals in language usage
• Discovering language the structure of modern English
• Child language a resource book for students
• On the discourse of satire towards a stylistic model of satirical humor
• psychology of language from data to theory