English Stylistics Outline (Series of Textbooks for English Majors in the School of Foreign Languages) (Wang Shouyuan)

Author: Wang Shouyuan
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: A Brief Introduction to English Stylistics is a specialized textbook designed to introduce and explore literary stylistics, consisting of nine chapters. The first chapter is an introduction, primarily discussing the definition of modern stylistics, theoretical hypotheses, the purpose of stylistic analysis, its components, steps, and nature. The second chapter discusses three significantly influential views on stylistics: stylistics as variation, stylistics as choice, and stylistics as prominence. Chapters three to six focus on analyzing two major cultural characteristics of prominent variability and excessive regularity at various linguistic levels. The seventh chapter discusses the connections within literary texts. The eighth chapter applies theories such as speech acts, the cooperative principle, and turn-taking to analyze and interpret dialogue in literary works. The final chapter explores the implications of the theories and methods of literary stylistics for English literature teaching. Additionally, each chapter is accompanied by exercises, and an English-Chinese glossary of terms and names is provided at the end of the book. This book can not only serve as a textbook for stylistics courses in English departments at universities but also be used as a reference for English teachers, postgraduate students in English majors, and advanced-level English learners.