Special Offer - 2005 PALA Prize winning authors Geoffrey Leech & Mick Short
PALA (Poetics and Language Association) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Style in Fiction by Leech & Short was awarded the prize "as the most influential published since 1980 in the area of stylistic analysis". To celebrate this achievement please find below a special offer on this and other related titles for a limited period only.
Style in Fiction
A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose2nd Edition
Geoffrey Leech, Mick Short
Paperback, Mar 2007ISBN13: 9780582784093
ISBN10: 0582784093
Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the most influential book published in the field of stylistics 1980.In ...
Complex Words in English presents a comprehensive account of present-day word formation in English. Starting with a discussion of some basic issues, including the definition of 'word', motiva...
Rhythms of English Poetry, the
Derek Attridge
Paperback, Dec 2004ISBN13: 9780582551053
ISBN10: 0582551056
Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm o...
Cohesion in English
M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan
Paperback, May 1976ISBN13: 9780582550414
ISBN10: 0582550416
Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are specifically associated...
This study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail...
A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry
Geoffrey Leech
Paperback, Mar 1973ISBN13: 9780582550131
ISBN10: 0582550130
"Professor Leech has given us the first full-length textbook suitable for teaching the 'new stylistics' to undergraduates."Language and Style..
Creating Texts:
An Introduction to the Study of Composition2nd Edition
Walter Nash, David Stacey
Paperback, Feb 1997ISBN13: 9780582244863
ISBN10: 0582244862
The purpose of this book is to enable students to fully comprehend what is involved in the creation of a text; to acquire a command of composition, grammar and the lexicon and to...
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
Mick Short
Paperback, Jul 1996ISBN13: 9780582291300
ISBN10: 0582291305
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects ar...
