A Dictionary of Stylistics

Reviews of the first edition:

''...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... ''(English Today)

''...an impressive single-author reference work... ''(English)

''...Not only is this volume indispensible for anyone, students or academics, working in any field related to stylistics, it is, like all the best dictionaries, a very good read...'' (Le Lingue del Mondo)

Over the past ten years there have been striking advances in stylistics. These have given rise to new terms and to revised thinking of concepts and re-definitions of terms. A Dictionary of Stylistics, 2nd Edition contains over 600 alphabeticlly listed entries: fully revised since the first and second editions, it contains many new entries.

Drawing material from stylistics and a range of related disciplines such as sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and traditional rhetoric, the revised Third Edition p