Issues in Literary Stylisitcs: Papers concerned with debatable areas of stylistics

ISBN-13: 9783656667810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str.

Khalid Shakir Hussein

Opis

Anthology from the year 2014 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, Thi-Qar University (College of Education), language: English, abstract: A great deal has been published in and about the major issues in literary stylistics, but there has been no attempt, as far as I know, to provide a clear-cut guide to such issues for the students who are just embarking on their readings about such a rapidly developing and controversial field of study. This book aims at providing such students of Applied Linguistics with a collection of the author's research papers on different aspects of Literary Stylistics. Most of these papers have been published in different journals, and since these journals might be inaccessible to the students, this book comes to make such papers available to the targeted readers. The collection is designed to meet the need of Applied Linguistics and Literary Stylistics majors by giving them a sort of familiarity with various topics in Literary Stylistics. It may also be used as a supplementary material for post-graduate students in Literary Stylistics. Moreover, I hope that this book will be particularly a useful guide to help researchers navigate and appreciate the diverse, ever expanding and exciting landscape of Literary Stylistics. It is true that it incorporates different theoretical orientations and stylistic domains, yet achieves an overall coherence through the sequencing of papers: this sequencing is intended to address three major issues on "style" 1.style as deviation from a given expectation 2.style as choice 3.style as recurrence. These three issues represent the most debatable linguistic definitions of 'style'. Style as deviation from a norm is particularly relevant to signal out one specific text from others and it has its great benefits in authorship attribution. Style as choice determines the linguistic system or repertoire from which the writer ha

O autorze

Khalid Shakir is an Assistant Professor of Corpus Stylistics at the University of Thi-Qar, College of Arts. He is interested in a variety of topics ranging from corpus approaches to authorship attribution and plagiarism to statistical investigations of linguistic and conceptual metaphors.