This book offers a global exploration of current theory and practice in the teaching of stylistics and the implementation of stylistic techniques in teaching other subjects. Pedagogical stylistics is a field that looks at employing stylistic analysis in teaching, with the aim of enabling students to better understand literature, language and also improving their language acquisition. It is also concerned with the best practice in teaching stylistics.

The book discusses a broad range of interrelated topics including hypertext, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language, poetry, creative writing, and metaphor. Leading experts offer focused, empirical studies on specific developments, providing in-depth examinations of both theoretical and practical teaching methods. This interdisciplinary approach covers linguistics and literature from the perspective of current pedagogical methodology, moving from general tertiary education to more specific EFL and ESL teaching. The role of stylistics in language acquisition is currently underexplored. This contemporary collection provides academics and practitioners with the most up to date trends in pedagogical stylistics and delivers analyses of a diverse range of teaching methods.

“Pedagogical Stylistics will be a stimulating read for anyone who teaches Stylistics and for teachers of English Language and Literature more generally, either in mother-tongue or second/foreign-language teaching situations. It is full of interesting discussions of texts, teaching approaches which can be used in class, and empirical studies which relate student reading processes and outcomes to pedagogical strategies.” Professor Mick Short, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK

Contents: Introduction Burke, et al \ I. Analysis, Reading and Reception in Pedagogical Stylistics \ 1. Paraphrase as a Way to a Contextualized Stylistic Analysis of Poetry: Tony Harrison’s ‘Marked with D’, Peter Verdonk \ 2. Chicken and Egg Stylistics: From Lexical Semantics to Conceptual Integration Theory, Paul Simpson and Patricia Canning \ 3. The Reader’s Paradox, Peter Stockwell \ 4. Experiencing or Interpreting Literature: Wording Instructions, Sonia Zyngier, Olivia Fiahlo and David Miall \ II. Emerging Trends and Methods in Pedagogical Stylistics \ 5. Systemic Stylistics: An Integrative, Rhetorical Method of Teaching and Learning in the Stylistics Classroom, Michael Burke \ 6. Creative Writing: A Stylistics Approach, Jeremy Scott \ 7. Corpus Stylistics in the Classroom, Dan McIntyre \ 8. Imagined Inference: Teaching Writers to Think Like Readers, Billy Clarke and Nicky Owtram \ 9. Literary Pragmatics in the Advanced Foreign Language Literature Classroom: The Case of Young Werther, Chantelle Warner \ 10. Narrative and Cognitive Stylistic Approaches to Teaching Hypertext Fiction, Paola Trimarco \ III. EFL and Pedagogical Stylistics \ 11.'Revenons à nos moutons!': Metaphor and Idiom in EFL and ESL Teaching and Learning, Geoff Hall \ 12. Stylistics for Language Teachers, Judit Zerkowitz \ Bibliography \ Index