ABSTRACT
First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental separation of text from context, linguistic description from descriptive interpretation, or language from situation. The essays cover a historically diverse set of texts, from Puttenham to Colemanballs, and a number of language-sensitive topics such as post-modernism, irony, newspaper representations, gender and narrative.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |5 pages
Part I Situated fashions of speaking and writing: from nonsense to common sense
part |4 pages
Part II Strategic styles
part |4 pages
Part III Positioning styles: framing women in language
part |4 pages
Part IV Styles of incongruity: the pragmatics of oddness and daftness