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Linguistic criticism / Roger Fowler.

By: Material type: TextSeries: An OPUS bookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Edition: Second edition, Reprint editionDescription: vi, 262 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0192892614
  • 9780192892614
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 410 FOW
Contents:
Language and the representation of experience -- Official and habitual language: the case for criticism -- Linguistic practice: defamiliarization -- How texts are made -- Extra structure, extra meanings -- Text and context -- Some aspects of dialogue -- Point of view -- Register and the plural text -- Meaning and world-view -- The role of the reader
Summary: Introduces the reader to the benefits of applying precise analytical methods to the criticism of texts. This revised and updated edition contains more 20th-century texts and examples for analysis and discussion, and an expanded section on the reader's role in literary criticism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language and the representation of experience -- Official and habitual language: the case for criticism -- Linguistic practice: defamiliarization -- How texts are made -- Extra structure, extra meanings -- Text and context -- Some aspects of dialogue --
Point of view -- Register and the plural text -- Meaning and world-view -- The role of the reader

Introduces the reader to the benefits of applying precise analytical methods to the criticism of texts. This revised and updated edition contains more 20th-century texts and examples for analysis and discussion, and an expanded section on the reader's role in literary criticism.

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