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Ling 131 - A brief History of Stylistics

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Stylistics explores how readers interact with the language of (mainly literary) texts in order to explain how we understand, and are affected by texts when we read them. The development of Stylistics, given that it combines the use of linguistic analysis with what we know about the psychological processes involved in reading, depended (at least in part) on the study of Linguistics and Psychology (both largely twentieth-century phenomena) becoming reasonably established. Stylistics, then, is a sub-discipline which grew up in the second half of the twentieth century: Its beginnings in Anglo-American criticism are usually traced back to the publication of the books listed below. Three of them are collections of articles, some of which had been presented as conference papers or published in journals a little earlier: Fowler, Roger (ed.) (1966) Essays on Style in Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Freeman, Donald C. (ed.) (1971) Linguistics and Literary Style.New York: Holt, Rineha

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