Language and Literature Reader

' The Routledge Language and Literature Reader is the most important stylistics collection in a decade. The essays included represent some of the best work of the past forty years and cover a wide range of approaches to poetry, prose, and drama from standard literary linguistics to cognitive stylistics, text world theory, and quantitative stylistics. It is sure to become a standard text on courses.'David L. Hoover, New York University, USA The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar. Divided into three main parts, Foundations , Developments and New Directions , the Reader provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 1970s, through the new theories and practices of the1980s and 1990s, to the most recent and contemporary work in the field. Each chapter contains a brief introduction by the editors situating it in the context of developing work in the discipline and glossing it in terms of the part and of the book as a whole. A final part concludes with a 'history and manifesto', written by the editors, which places developments in the area of stylistics within a brief history of the field and offers a polemical perspective on the future of a growing and influential discipline. Contributors : Ronald Carter, Guy Cook, Catherine Emmott, Roger Fowler, Joanna Gavins, Ray Gibbs, Keith Green, Michael Halliday, Geoffrey Leech, David Lodge, Dan McIntyre, Walter Nash, Mary Louise Pratt, Elena Semino, Mick Short, Paul Simpson, John Sinclair, Violeta Sotirova, Peter Stockwell, Michael Stubbs, Alison Tate, Michael Toolan, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Willie van Peer, Katie Wales, Paul Werth, Jean Jacques Weber and Henry Widdowson. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham. His books include the co-authored Working with Texts (3 rd edition, 2007), The Routledge History of Literature in English (2001) and Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk (2004). Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham. His recent titles include Sociolinguistics (2 nd edition, 2007), Cognitive Poetics (2002) and the co-authored Language in Theory (2004). Literature / English Language and Literature / LinguisticsStockwell, Peter is the author of 'Language and Literature Reader', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415410038 and ISBN 0415410037.