Designed primarily for student use but also suitable as a professional reference, this offers an integrated approach that includes linguistics in the mix. Editors Carter and Stockwell (modern
English language and literary linguistics, respectively, U. of Nottingham) work chronologically from the 1960s to ensure students of stylistics understand both concepts and trends. With such
exemplars as David Lodge, John Sinclair, Henry Widdowson, Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt they explain early theory and practice through example. With such as Michael Toolan,
Walter Nash, Keith Green, Alison Tate and Guy Cook they track development of stylistics criticism and in no less than ten examples (including works by Weber, Simpson, Stubbs, Emmott and
Sotirova) track the trajectories of several alternative developments. They provide a very good summary of what has been done and what is to come, in part to pique the interest and initiate new
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