Language, Discourse and Literature

This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and balladic poetry; speech presentation; the interactive properties of metre; the communicative context of author/reader. Among the texts examined are novels, poetry and drama by major twentieth-century writers such as Joyce, Auden, Pinter and Hopkins, as well as examples from Shakespeare, Donne and Milton. Each chapter has a wide range of exercises for practical analysis, an extensive glossary and a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading. The book will be particularly useful to undergraduate students of English and applied linguistics and advanced students of modern languages or English as a foreign language.

ISBN 0415119537   Pages 304 ISBN13 9780415119535 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 387 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 24 Nov 1988   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress PR65.D57 L   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 809   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

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