Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures xi
4. Tables xii
5. Permission acknowledgements xiv
6. Acknowledgements xvii
7. Part I Introducing contemporary stylistics
8. 1 Contemporary stylistics 1
9. Part II Literature as language
10. 2 Foregrounding 13
11. 3 Phonemes to sound patterning 27
12. 4 Morphemes to words 42
13. 5 Phrase to sentence 56
14. 6 Register, lexical semantics, and cohesion 68
15. Part III Literature as discourse
16. 7 Dialogue and spoken discourse 81
17. 8 Speech, thought, and narration 96
18. 9 Modality and point of view 109
19. 10 Transitivity and ideology 121
20. 11 Varieties and invented languages 135
21. Part IV Text as cognition
22. 12 Figure and ground 147
23. 13 Deixis and deictic shift 162
24. 14 Schemas, scripts, and prototypes 175
25. 15 Cognitive grammar and construal 189
26. Part V Reading as mental spaces
27. 16 Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration 203
28. 17 Text-worlds 221
29. 18 Negation and lacuna 236
30. Part VI Reading as experience
31. 19 Analysing the multimodal text 247
32. 20 Understanding emotions 267
33. Part VII Reading as data
34. 21 Corpus stylistics 283
35. 22 Investigating readers 301
36. Part VIII Conclusion
37. 23 Future stylistics 319
38. References 329
39. Index 367