List of tables and figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Stylistics:From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience
PART I Historical perspectives in stylistics
1 Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics
2 Formalist stylistics
3 Functionalist stylistics
4 Reader response criticism and stylistics
PART II Core issues in stylistics
5 The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics
6 (New) historical stylistics
7 Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory
8 Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle
9 Stylistics and relevance theory
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