Chapter 1 Intro duction

1.1 Definition of Stylistics

1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study

1.3 Two Import ant Assumptions of Stylistics

1.4 The Goals，Components and Procedure of Stylistic Inquiry

1.5 The Nature of Stylistic Analysis

Notes

Exercises

2.1 Style as Deviance

Chapter 2 Th ree Views on Style

2.2 Style as Choice

2.3 Style as Foregrounding

Notes

Exercises

Chapter 3 Surface-structure Deviation

3.1 Phonological Deviation

3.1.1 Omission

3.1.2 Mispronunciation and Sub-standard Pronunciation

3.1.3 Special Pronunciation

3.1.4 Change of Stress

3.2.1 Shape of Text

3.2 Grapho1ogical Deviation

3.2.2 Type of Print

3.2.3 Grammetrics

3.3 Syntactic Deviation

3.3.1 Unusual Clause Theme

3.3.2 Deviant Phrase Structure

3.3.3 Ellipsis

3.4 Lexical Deviation

3.4.1 Affixation

3.4.2 Compounding

3.4.3 Conversion

Notes

Exercises

Chapter 4 Deep-structure Deviation

4.1 Contradiction

4.1.1 O xymoron

4.1.2 Paradox

4.2 Transference

4.2.1 Synecdoche

4.2.2 Metonymy

4.2.3 Metaphor

4.3.1 Overstatement

4.3 Deception

4.3.2 Understatement

4.3.3 Irony

4.4 Ambiguity

Notes

Exercises

Chapter 5 Phonological Overregularity

5.1 Phonemic P at terning

5.1.1 Alliteration

5.1.2 Rhyme

5.1.3 Assonance

5.1.4 Consonance

5.1.5 Onomatopoeia

5.2 Rhythmic Patterning

5.2.1 Stress

5.2.2 Metre

5.2.3 Metrical Variation

Notes

Exercises

6.1 Repetition

6.1.1 Immediate Repetition

Chapter 6 Syntactic Overregularity

6.1.2 Intermittent Repetition

6.2 Parallelism

6.2.1 Large-scale Parallelism

6.2.2 Small-scale Parallelism

Notes

Exercises

Chapter 7 Cohesion of Foregrounded Features

7.1 Example One

7.2 Example Two

7.3 Example Three

Notes

Exercises

Chapter 8 Implications of Styli stice for Teaching English Lite rature

8.1 A Brief Description of Students

8.2 Implications of Stylistics for Defining the Aims of Teaching Literature

8.3 Implication s of Stylistics for Devising class-room Literary Exercises

8.4 The Advantages and Challenge s of a Sty-listic Approach to Teaching Literature

Notes

Exerci ses

Bibliography

General Indexwith Chinese Transiation)