English Stylistics: A Cognitive Grammar Approach

Prologue
Topic
Aims
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Key Concepts
	Introduction
	Style
	Keystones
	Qualities
	Modes
	Expository
	Persuasive
	Narrative
	Descriptive
	Stylistics
	Axioms
	Goals
	Levels
	Stylistic Devices
	Properties
	Advantages
	Types
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 2: Historical Overview
	Introduction
	Appropriacy-Centered Trends
	Rhetorical Stylistics
	Poetic Stylistics
	Writer-Centered Trends
	Expressive Stylistics
	Psychological Stylistics
	Text-Centered Trends
	Practical Criticism
	New Criticism
	Reader-Centered Trends
	Reader-Response Stylistics
	Affective Stylistics
	Form-Centered Trends
	Structural Stylistics
	Generative Stylistics
	Meaning-Centered Trends
	Functional Stylistics
	Feminist Stylistics
	Pragmatic Stylistics
	Corpus Stylistics
	Cognitive Stylistics
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 3: The Cognitive Framework
	Introduction
	Cognitive Linguistics
		Commitments
		Assumptions
	Cognitive Grammar
		Grammatical Claims
		Semantic Claims
	Cognitive Stylistics
		The Triangle
			The Writer
			The Reader
			The Text
		Tenets
		Benefits
		Creativity
			Characteristics
			Significance
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 4: The Idealization Theory
	Introduction
	The Idealization Theory
	Essence
	Premises
	Advantages
	Cognitive Models
	The Billiard-Ball Model
	Transitivity
	Resultativity
	The Stage Model
	Extraposition
	Pronominality
	The Canonical-Event Model
	Raising
	Voice
	The Reference-Point Model
	Possession
	Expletive
	The Reality Model
	Tense
	Complementation
	The Force-Dynamics Model
	Modality
	Causation
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 5: The Contextualization Theory
	Introduction
	The Contextualization Theory
		Essence
		Premises
		Advantages
	Deixis
		Exophora
			Personal Deixis
			Spatial Deixis
				Demonstratives
				Adverbs of Place
			Temporal Deixis
				Time Adverbs
				Verb Tenses
			Social Deixis
				Vocatives
				Honorifics
			Discourse Deixis
		Endophora
			Anaphora
			Cataphora
	Deictic Shift
		Essence
		Advantages
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 6: The Configuration Theory
	Introduction
	The Domain Theory
		Essence
		Premises
		Advantages
	Domains of Stylistic Devices
		The Domain of Phonology
		The Domain of Morphology
		The Domain of Graphology
		The Domain of Lexicology
		The Domain of Syntax
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 7: The Experientialism Theory
	Introduction
	The Experientialism Theory
		Essence
		Premises
		Advantages
	Forms of Conceptual Structure
		Metaphor
			Structural Metaphor
			Orientational Metaphor
			Ontological Metaphor
		Metonymy
			Relational Metonymy
			Antonomastic Metonymy
			Conventional Metonymy
		Image Schema
			Container Image Schema
			Path Image Schema
			Scale Image Schema
		Mental Spaces
			Indefinite Reference
			Definite Reference
			Conditionality
		Blending
			Morphological Blends
			Grammatical Blends
			Counterfactuality
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Chapter 8: The Conceptualization Theory
	Introduction
	The Construal Theory
	Essence
	Premises
	Advantages
	Dimensions of Construal
	Prominence
	Profiling
	Trajector-Landmark Alignment
	Salience
	Focusing
	Foreground-Background
	Scope
	Perspective
	Vantage Point
	Viewing Arrangement
	Subjectivity
	Objectivity
	Dynamicity
	Summary
	Further Reading
	References
Epilogue
	Chapter Summaries
		Chapter 1
		Chapter 2
		Chapter 3
		Chapter 4
		Chapter 5
		Chapter 6
		Chapter 7
		Chapter 8
	General Conclusions
	Specific Conclusions
Index