"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetoric and poetics: the classical heritage of stylistics / Michael Burke -- Formalist stylistics / Michael Burke and Kristy Evers -- Functionalist stylistics / Patricia Canning -- Reader response criticism and stylistics / Jennifer Riddle Harding -- The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics / Christiana Gregoriou -- (New) historical stylistics / Beatrix Busse -- Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory / Derek Bousfield -- Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle / Marina Lambrou -- Stylistics and relevance theory / Billy Clark -- Stylistics, point of view and modality / Clara Neary -- Stylistics and narratology / Dan Shen -- Metaphor and stylistics / Szilvia Csábi -- Speech and thought presentation in stylistics / Joe Bray -- Pedagogical stylistics / Geoff Hall -- Stylistics, drama and performance / Andrea Macrae -- Schema theory in stylistics / Catherine Emmott, Marc Alexander, and Agnes Marszalek -- Stylistics and text world theory / Ernestine Lahey -- Stylistics and blending / Barbara Dancygier -- Cognitive poetics / Margaret H. Freeman -- Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics / Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier -- Feminist stylistics / Rocío Montoro -- Literary pragmatics and stylistics / Chantelle Warner -- Corpus stylistics / Michaela Mahlberg -- Stylistics and translation / Jean Boase-Beier -- Critical stylistics / Lesley Jeffries -- Creative writing and stylistics / Jeremy Scott -- Stylistics and real readers / David Peplow and Ronald Carter -- Stylistics and film / Michael Toolan -- Multimodality and stylistics / Nina Nørgaard -- Stylistics and comics / Charles Forceville, Elisabeth El Refaie, and Gert Meesters -- Stylistics and hypertext fiction / Paola Trimarco -- Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience / Patrick Colm Hogan.