Critical stylistics : the power of English /
Lesley Jeffries.
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Perspectives on the English language .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The background to critical stylistics -- Naming and describing -- Representing actions/events/states -- Equating and constrasting -- Exemplifying and enumerating -- Prioritising -- Implying and assuming -- Negating -- Hypothesising -- Presenting others' speech and thoughts -- Representing time, space and society.