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Stylistics as an academic discipline tends to be associated with undergraduate programmes in English or English Language studies, where the focus of stylistics is to present students with a range of literary texts for analysis of the language used in order for them to understand how meaning and effects are created. Traditionally, the literary texts under analysis and discussion include novels, poems and plays, which are generally from within the literary canon but can also include modern works. Recent trends in stylistics look to a broader range of texts beyond the literary kind, such as media texts (including advertisements, print and online news, and new/social media); personal or non-literary narratives; political discourse and rhetoric; cartoons and anime and also film and subtitling. Simpson (2004: 5) presents a list of what he describes as basic ‘levels and units of analysis in language’ or ‘levels of language’, which can act as a checklist for the analysis and interpretation of a text, depending on what the focus might be (see Table 19.1).
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Lambrou, M. (2015). Pedagogical Stylistics in an ELT Teacher Training Setting: A Case Study. In: Teranishi, M., Saito, Y., Wales, K. (eds) Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443663_20
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