Critical Stylistics: The Power of English

by Lesley Jeffries

Book Overview

This original and engaging textbook is concerned with stylistic choices, and the textual analysis which can illuminate the choices that a text producer has made. It combines the strengths of two approaches - critical discourse analysis and stylistics - to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts. In so doing, it introduces a comprehensive set of tools which will help readers to explain and analyse the power of written texts. Each chapter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333964489
• ISBN13: 9780333964484
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"