Contents // Preface ix // SECTION I // Survey i // 1 The concept of style 3 // Features of style: a newspaper headline 4 // Style as motivated choice 5 // Style in context 6 // Style ard persuasive effect 7 // Conclusion 9 // 2 Style in literature 11 // Text type and style 11 // Text type and function 12 // Conclusion 16 // 3 Text and discourse 17 // The nature of text 17 // The nature of discourse 18 // Textual and contextual meaning 19 // The headline revisited 20 // The context of literary discourse 21 // The communicative situation in literary discourse 22 // Conclusion 27 // 4 Perspectives on meaning 29 // The double meaning of perspective 29 // Perspective in narrative fiction 30 // Stylistic markers of perspective and positioning 3 4 // Deixis 35 // Given and new information 37 // Ideological perspective 3 8 // Conclusion 40 // 5 The language of literary representation 41 // Perspective in third-person narration 41 // Speech and thought representation 45 // Conclusion 53 // 6 Perspectives on literary interpretation 5 5 // Literary criticism 5 5 // Interpreting a complete poem 57 // Substantiation by analysis 58 // Literary interpretation revisited 62 // Conclusion 64 // 7 Stylistics and ideological perspectives 67 // Social reading and ideological positioning 68 // Incorporation of literary criticism into linguistic criticism ? 74 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) 74 // Conclusion 78 // section 2 // Readings 79 // SECTION 3 // References 109 // SECTION 4 // Glossary 117