Chapter 1 Introduction
  1.1 What stylistics is
  1.2 What stylistics does
  1.3 The purposes of teaching stylistics
  1.4 The organization of this book
Chapter 2 Stylistics and Stylistic Concepts
  2.1 Concepts defining stylistics and used in stylistic analysis
  2.2 The poetic function
  2.3 Foregrounding
    2.3.1 Deviation
    2.3.2 Parallelism
    2.3.3 External and internal foregrounding
  2.4 Levels of language, linguistic branches, and foregrounding
  2.5 Systemic functional linguistic models of language
    2.5.1 Halliday's framework of levels for linguistic description
    2.5.2 Sydney School's framework for discourse analysis
Chapter 3 Sounds and Metrical Patterns in Poems
  3.1 Sounds (and written forms) in poems
  3.2 Segmental sounds and suprasegmental features
    3.2.1 English speech sounds
      3.2.1.1 English consonants
      3.2.1.2 English vowels
    3.2.2 English syllable structure and word stress
    3.2.3 English tone group and sentence stress
  3.3 Sound and metrical patterning
    3.3.1 Syllable structure and sound patterning
    3.3.2 Stress and metrical patterns
      3.3.2.1 Different types of feet
      3.3.2.2 Different types of meter
  3.4 Metrical analysis of a poem
  3.5 Revisiting the translation of poems
Chapter 4 Words and Stylistic Analysis
  4.1 Words and their syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects
  4.2 Morphemes and word formation
    4.2.1 Morphemes and figures of speech/sound
    4.2.2 Word formation and neologisms
  4.3 Categories of words and stylistics
    4.3.1 Grammatical classification
    4.3.2 Etymological classification
    4.3.3 Words in different registers and dialects
  4.4 Lexical semantics and stylistics
    4.4.1 Sense and reference
    4.4.2 Lexical field
    4.4.3 Sense relations between lexical items
Chapter 5 Sentence and Stylistic Analysis
  5.1 From word to sentence and from lexis to grammar
    5.1.1 Units between word and sentence
    5.1.2 Lexico grammar as a stratum of language
  5.2 Syntactic ambiguity and different grammatical approaches
    5.2.1 Component and Immediate Constituent Analysis (IC Analysis)
    5.2.2 Parts of speech and Constituent Structure Grammar
    5.2.3 Surface and Deep Structures and Transformational Generative Grammar
    5.2.4 Different functional roles and Systemic Functional Grammar
  5.3 Descriptive grammar and stylistic analysis
    5.3.1 Clause structure
    5.3.2 Structural elements and phrases
    5.3.3 Clause types and sentence types
    5.3.4 An interpretation of The Unprofessionals
    5.3.5 Syntactic foregrounding from the perspective of descriptive grammar
      5.3.5.1 Syntactic deviation
      5.3.5.2 Syntactic overregularity
  5.4 Functional grammar and functional stylistic analysis
    5.4.1 The stylistic analysis of The Inheritors from the perspective of descriptive grammar
    5.4.2 The Inheritors and functional stylistic analysis
      5.4.2.1 Clauses in functional stylistic analysis
      5.4.2.2 Transitivity system and the analysis of The Inheritors
      5.4.2.3 Thematic structure and the analysis of The Inheritors
      5.4.2.4 An interpretation of The Inheritors from a functional perspective
Chapter 6 Discourse and Narrative Stylistics
  6.1 Discourse and text
  6.2 Discourse, genre and ideology: A functional approach
    6.2.1 A framework for discussion
    6.2.2 Ideology
    6.2.3 Genre
    6.2.4 Discourse semantics
  6.3 Narrative stylistics
    6.3.1 Discourse structure of novels and short stories
    6.3.2 Points of view
    6.3.3 Narrative structure
    6.3.4 Temporal ordering
      6.3.4.1 Order
      6.3.4.2 Duration
      6.3.4.3 Frequency
  6.4 A shift from authors' meaning making to readers' comprehension
Chapter 7 Multimodality and Multimodal Stylistics
  7.1 Modes and media
  7.2 Different ways of making meaning
  7.3 Parametric systems for sound quality and speech sounds
    7.3.1 Parametric system for sound quality
    7.3.2 Multimodal interpretation of speech sounds
      7.3.2.1 General phonetic features and their interpretations
      7.3.2.2 General features of vowels and consonants and their interpretations
      7.3.2.3 Phonaesthemes
      7.3.2.4 Onomatopoeia
  7.4 Graphology and typography
    7.4.1 Textual layout or arrangement
    7.4.2 Typography of written scripts
  7.5 Multimodal texts and multimodal stylistics
Appendix 2.1 An excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea
Appendix 5.1 Extracts from The Inheritors
Appendix 6.1 Lost and Found
Appendix 6.2 From Little Things Big Things Grow
References