ABSTRACT
This chapter delineates the framework for the study of ‘verbal art’, as modelled by Ruqaiya Hasan, pointing towards ways in which it can be compared with ‘mainstream’ stylistics in terms of strengths and drawbacks. The chapter also provides a circumscribed chronicle of inputs to the model and an illustration of application. Finally, it briefly discusses just how, and how not, corpus linguistics might be usefully merged with what Hasan has dubbed ‘social-semiotic stylistics’ (SSS).2
