by Geoffrey N. Leech, Mick Short · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582291034
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«Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose» is Leech and Short's study of stylistics, in paperback (402 pages, in English).
The book is an introduction to the linguistic study of style in English fictional prose. Leech and Short combine linguistic analysis and literary criticism of works from the last 150 years, explaining how the resources of language construct style and enrich the interpretation of the text.
Volume 13 of the English Language Series, published by Pearson Education Limited. The book was originally published in 1981.
Aimed at university students of literature and linguistics and readers interested in the analysis of narrative style.
Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics.
