A Dictionary Of Stylistics

Now available for the first time in paperback, 'A Dictionary of Stylistics' is the major reference work of the terminology used in stylistics together with its related disciplines of discourse analysis, text linguisticsm literary theory and literary criticism. Comprehensive and easy to use, it contains voor 600 alphabetically-listed entries drawing widely on areas suc as socilinguistics, semiotics, grammar, communication theory, poetics and traditional rhetoric.

'A Dictionary of Stylistics' is an ideal reference work and handbook for stylistic analysis; students and teachers of linguistics, English language and literature, and English as a foreign and second language, will find it an invaluable source of information and explanation.