Contents Introduction 1 PART I Historical perspectives in stylistics 9 1 Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics 11 2 Formalist stylistics 31 3 Functionalist stylistics 45 4 Reader response criticism and stylistics 68 PART II Core issues in stylistics 85 5 The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics 87 6 (New) historical stylistics 101 7 Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory 118 8 Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle 136 9 Stylistics and relevance theory 155 10 Stylistics, point of view and modality 175 11 Stylistics and narratology 191 12 Metaphor and stylistics 206 13 Speech and thought presentation in stylistics 222 PART III Contemporary topics in stylistics 237 14 Pedagogical stylistics 239 15 Stylistics, drama and performance 253 16 Schema theory in stylistics 268 17 Stylistics and text world theory 284 18 Stylistics and blending 297 19 Cognitive poetics 313 20 Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics 329 21 Feminist stylistics 346 22 Literary pragmatics and stylistics 362 23 Corpus stylistics 378 24 Stylistics and translation 393 25 Critical stylistics 408 PART IV Emerging and future trends in stylistics 421 26 Creative writing and stylistics 423 27 Stylistics and real readers 440 28 Stylistics and film 455 29 Multimodality and stylistics 471 30 Stylistics and comics 485 31 Stylistics and hypertext fiction 500 32 Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience 516 Index 531