Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners

Part I. Theoretical Perspectives

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

2. On Teaching Literature Itself
Peter Stockwell

Part II. New Approaches

3. When the Students Become the Teachers: A Practical Pedagogy
Joanna Gavins, Jane Hodson

4. ‘The Shudder of the Dying Day in Every Blade of Grass’: Whose Words? Voice, Veracity and the Representation of Memory
John McRae

5. Analysing Literature through Films
Rocio Montoro

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

Part III. Corpus Stylistics

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

8. Literary Worlds as Collocation
Bill Louw

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

Part IV. Stylistics, Grammar and Discourse

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

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

12. Language Teaching Through Gricean Glasses
Judit Zerkowitz

Part V. Awareness and Cognition

13. Attention-Directed Literary Education: An Empirical Investigation
David Ian Hanauer

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

15. Revisiting Literary Awareness
Sonia Zyngier, Olivia Fialho, Patricia Andréa Prado Rios

Keywords: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Linguistics, general, Stylistics, Language Teaching, Literacy