Literature and stylistics for language learners : theory and practice / edited by Greg Watson and Sonia Zyngier ; foreword by Ronald Carter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Greg (Greg J.)

Zyngier, Sonia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Literary style--Study and teaching.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 217 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

For the first time a volume integrates stylistics with the most recent advances in discourse analysis, cognition, computers and media studies and shows how this can work in the classroom. Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners is of value in a wide variety of contexts. Contributors, working in five continents, include some of the most prominent scholars in the field. They indicate how theory, empirical studies and classroom applications can work in many different EFL, ESL or first-language contexts.

Here the reader will discover what lies in store for stylistic research and application; the volume is a must for those who want to help readers acquire the necessary skills for interpreting literary texts in a more systematic way. It should be of use to undergraduate students beginning their studies in stylistics and/or teacher-training, teachers who would like to see how an analysis of stylistics works in the classroom, arts instructors, educational administrators, and syllabus and test designers interested in keeping abreast with current developments in literary education.

Contents:

Part I Theoretical Perspectives

1 Stylistics in Second Language Contexts: A Critical Perspective / Geoff Hall 3

2 On Teaching Literature Itself / Peter Stockwell 15

Part II New Approaches

3 When the Students Become the Teachers: A Practical Pedagogy / Joanne Gavins, Jane Hodson 27

4 'The Shudder of the Dying Day in Every Blade of Grass': Whose Words? Voice, Veracity and the Representation of Memory / John McRae 37

5 Analysing Literature Through Films / Rocio Montoro 48

6 Discourse Stylistics and Detective Fiction: A Case Study / Urszula Clark 60

Part III Corpus Stylistics

7 Corpus Stylistics as a Discovery Procedure / Donald E. Hardy 79

8 Literary Worlds as Collocation / Bill Louw 91

9 Investigating Student Reactions to a Web-Based Stylistics Course in Different National and Educational Settings / Mick Short, Beatrix Busse, Patricia Plummer 106

Part IV Stylistics, Grammar and Discourse

10 From Syntax to Schema: Teaching Flannery O'Connor in the Persian Gulf / David L. Gugin 129

11 Non-Standard Grammar in the Teaching of Language and Style / Paul Simpson 140

12 Language Teaching Through Gricean Glasses / Judit Zerkowitz 155

Part V Awareness and Cognition

13 Attention-directed Literary Education: An Empirical Investigation / David Ian Hanauer 169

14 What Reading Does to Readers: Stereotypes, Foregrounding and Language Learning / Willie van Peer, Aikaterini Nousi 181

15 Revisiting Literary Awareness / Sonia Zyngier, Olivia Fialho, Patricia Andrea do Prado Rios 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403987998

OCLC:

70107149