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Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners

Theory and Practice

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Greg Watson

    1. University of Joensuu, Finland

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  2. Sonia Zyngier

    1. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Stylistics in Second Language Contexts: A Critical Perspective

      • Geoff Hall
      Pages 3-14

    3. On Teaching Literature Itself

      • Peter Stockwell
      Pages 15-24

  4. Corpus Stylistics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Corpus Stylistics as a Discovery Procedure

      • Donald E. Hardy
      Pages 79-90

    3. Literary Worlds as Collocation

      • Bill Louw
      Pages 91-105

    4. Investigating Student Reactions to a Web-Based Stylistics Course in Different National and Educational Settings

      • Mick Short, Beatrix Busse, Patricia Plummer
      Pages 106-125

  5. Stylistics, Grammar and Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. From Syntax to Schema: Teaching Flannery O’Connor in the Persian Gulf

      • David L. Gugin
      Pages 129-139

    3. Non-Standard Grammar in the Teaching of Language and Style

      • Paul Simpson
      Pages 140-154

    4. Language Teaching Through Gricean Glasses

      • Judit Zerkowitz
      Pages 155-165

  6. Awareness and Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Attention-Directed Literary Education: An Empirical Investigation

      • David Ian Hanauer
      Pages 169-180

    3. What Reading Does to Readers: Stereotypes, Foregrounding and Language Learning

      • Willie van Peer, Aikaterini Nousi
      Pages 181-193
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About this book

This volume presents the state of the art in terms of stylistic research and application, including EFL and ESL language classroom situations. Some of the most prominent scholars from a variety of backgrounds in the field of pedagogical stylistics show how theory, empirical studies and new technology, including corpus analysis, can be integrated into the classroom.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Joensuu, Finland

    Greg Watson

  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Sonia Zyngier

About the editors

BEATRIX BUSSE teaches English linguistics at the Department of English at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany RONALD CARTER is Professor of Modern English Language, University of Nottingham, UK URSZULA CLARK is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aston, UK OLÍVIA FIALHO is a PhD Student in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada JOANNA GAVINS is Lecturer in English Language and Literature, University of Sheffield, UK DAVID L. GUGIN is Assistant Professor of English, Department of Language and Literature, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates GEOFF HALL is Senior Lecturer, Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), University of Wales Swansea, UK DAVID IAN HANAUER is Associate Professor, Graduate Program of Composition and TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA DONALD E. HARDY is Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno, USA JANE HODSON is a Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Sheffield, UK BILL LOUW is Senior Lecturer in Modern English Language , University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe JOHN MCRAE is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK ROCÍO MONTORO is Lecturer in English Language, University of Huddersfield, UK AIKATERINI NOUSI is currently teaching German in Greece PATRICIA PLUMMER teaches British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz,Germany PATRÍCIA ANDRÉA DO PRADO RIOS teaches English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and works in teacher-training courses in Brazil MICK SHORT is Professor of English Language and Literature, Lancaster University, UK PAUL SIMPSON is Professor of English Language, School of English, Queen's University Belfast, UK PETER STOCKWELL is Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK WILLIE VAN PEER is Professor of Intercultural Hermeneutics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany JUDIT ZERKOWITZ works at the Department of English Applied Linguistics at the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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