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"This Bloomsbury Companion provides an overview of stylistics with a detailed outline of the scope and history of the discipline, as well as its key areas of research. The main research methods and approaches within the field are presented with a detailed overview and then illus…
Chick lit: the stylistics of cappuccino fiction
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Patterns in Language addresses the real needs of students in modular systems who may not have a background either in traditional literature or linguistic theory.
This book attempts to bring some coherence to a highly interdisciplinary area of translation studies, situating different views and approaches to style within general trends in linguistics and literary criticism and assessing their place in translation st.