Seeing Through Language: A Guide to Styles of English Writing

This is an introduction to literary stylistics and the study of discourse. The book's aim is to introduce students to models and techniques of analysis and to provide a basis for an understanding of how levels of discourse operate, both in literature and in other, non-literary forms of language. It covers syntax, vocabulary, phonology and social context in relation to different literary conventions, allowing readers to understand style as both a linguistic property and an interactional and social phenomenon. The book is aimed at students and specialists of English language and literature and students and specialists in discourse analysis.