Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 What stylistics is
1.2 What stylistics does
1.3 The purposes of teaching stylistics
1.4 The organization of this book
Chapter 2 Stylistics and Stylistic Concepts
2.1 Concepts defining stylistics and used in stylistic analysis
2.2 The poetic function
2.3 Foregrounding
2.3.1 Deviation
2.3.2 Parallelism
2.3.3 External and internal foregrounding
2.4 Levels of language, linguistic branches, and foregrounding
2.5 Systemic functional linguistic models of language
2.5.1 Halliday's framework of levels for linguistic description
2.5.2 Sydney School's framework for discourse analysis
Chapter 3 Sounds and Metrical Patterns in Poems
3.1 Sounds (and written forms) in poems
3.2 Segmental sounds and suprasegmental features
3.2.1 English speech sounds
3.2.1.1 English consonants
3.2.1.2 English vowels
3.2.2 English syllable structure and word stress
3.2.3 English tone group and sentence stress
3.3 Sound and metrical patterning
3.3.1 Syllable structure and sound patterning
3.3.2 Stress and metrical patterns
3.3.2.1 Different types of feet
3.3.2.2 Different types of meter
3.4 Metrical analysis of a poem
3.5 Revisiting the translation of poems
Chapter 4 Words and Stylistic Analysis
4.1 Words and their syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects
4.2 Morphemes and word formation
4.2.1 Morphemes and figures of speech/sound
4.2.2 Word formation and neologisms
4.3 Categories of words and stylistics
4.3.1 Grammatical classification
4.3.2 Etymological classification
4.3.3 Words in different registers and dialects
4.4 Lexical semantics and stylistics
4.4.1 Sense and reference
4.4.2 Lexical field
4.4.3 Sense relations between lexical items
Chapter 5 Sentence and Stylistic Analysis
5.1 From word to sentence and from lexis to grammar
5.1.1 Units between word and sentence
5.1.2 Lexico grammar as a stratum of language
5.2 Syntactic ambiguity and different grammatical approaches
5.2.1 Component and Immediate Constituent Analysis (IC Analysis)
