Marklen E. Konurbaev

The Style and Timbre of English Speech and Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-51947-4
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 203
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781137519474
• ISBN-10: 1137519479
• Artikelnr.: 42798449

Autorenporträt

Marklen Konurbaev is Professor of English Philology at Department of English Linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He is the author of over 80 publications including 4 books devoted to stylistics of Modern English speech and literature. His main research interests include the style and history of the King James Bible as well as cultural anthropology and translation studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Prolegomena to Stylistic Timbrology: Automation and
Foregrounding 2. Neutrality in Language - Neutrality in Speech 3.
Classification of Contexts by Types of Stylistic Background 4. A Glimpse of
the Brain: The Mechanism of Mental Audition 5. Inner and Outer Speech: A
Parametric Match 6. Individual Author's Style: The Way to Hear Timbre 7.
The Style and Timbre of Everyday Speech 8. The Style and Timbre of Official
Documents 9. The Timbre of Journalism 10. The Voices in Fiction Conclusion