试图突破传统文体学教材的思路和框架,在阐述分析文体学的基本理念和方法时做一些批判性的思考,将文体分析和文本阐释过程有机结合,使读者在具体、系统分析文体特征的同时,了解制约文本解读的认知因素,从而帮助他们掌握文本分析和解读的基本方法。本书还引入了*新的话语分析成果,对一般文体学教科书鲜有涉及的读者定位、互文性、多模态话语等问题进行了深入探讨。就方法论而言,本书强调文体学分析的程序性和可操作性。
书可作为高校英语专业研究生的文体学教材,也可供相关英语工作者参考。

Contents
Preface 1 Part I Basics
Chapter One Introduction:Defining the Basics
1.1 Style
1.2 D istinctiveness and foregrounding
1.3 Literariness
1.4 Dualism vs monism
1.5 Style and ideology
1.6 Stylistics
Tasks
Chapter Two Analytical Procedures
2.1 Replicability
2.2 Basic levels of analysis
2.3 Patterning or regularity
2.4 The use of theories
Tasks
Part II Poetic Discourse
Chapter Three Sound Patterning
3.1 Poetic textual convention
3.2 Sound patterning in the traditional poetic convention
3.3 Analyzing sound patterns:metrics
3.4 Analyzing sound patterns:rhyme scheme
3.5 An alternative approach to the analysis of sound patterning
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Chapter Four Sound Symbolism
4.1 Sound and meaning
4.2 Genre-signaling function
4.3 Sound symbolism
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Chapter Five Grammar in Poetry
5.1 Grammar and poetry
5.2 Grammatical theories and stylistic analysis of poetry
5.3 Poetic use of grammar
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Chapter Six Meaning in Poetry
6.1 Meaning in poetry
6.2 Figurative language
6.3 Analyzing common figures of speech
6.4 Linguistic analysis of the meaning of a poem
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Part III Prose Discourse
Chapter Seven Point of View
7.1 Point of view:perspectual or conceptual
7.2 Point of view and perceptual salience
7.3 Point of view and conceptual salience
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Chapter Eight Point of View in Narrative Discourse
8.1 Point of view and narration
8.2 First person point of view
8.3 Third person point of view
8.4 Shifting points of view
8.5 Friedman's classification
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Chapter Nine Reader Positioning and Reading Positions
9.1 Hypotheses on reading positions and positioning the reader
9.2 Hall's theory on reading positions
9.3 Reader positioning
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Chapter Ten Reader Positioning Strategies:Lexical and Syntactic Signaling
10.1 Lexical signaling:semantic fields and collocation
10.2 Analyzing lexical signalling
10.3 Syntactic signaling:transitivity analysis
10.4 Analyzing syntactic signaling
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Chapter Eleven Intertextuality
11.1 Hypotheses on intertextuality
11.2 Insertion:speech presentation
11.3 Assimilation
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Chapter Twelve Multi-modality and Reader Positioning
12.1 Text and multi-modality
12.2 Theories on multi-modality
12.3 Analyzing multi-modal texts
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References