Linguistics and Literary Style

Contents: Preface. 1. Linguistic approach to stylistics. 2. Pre-linguistic development. 3. Linguistic ontogeny. 4. Literature. 5. Computational linguistics. 6. Forensic linguistics. 7. Syntactical construction-types: endocentric. 8. New lexical items. 9. Influence of translation. 10. Phonemic perception. 11. Psycholinguistics. 12. Functionalism. Bibliography. Index.

"Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure (grammar) and the study of meaning (semantics). Grammar encompasses morphology (the formation and composition of words), syntax (the rules that determine how words continue into phrases and sentences) and phonology (the study of sound systems and abstract sound units). Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds (Phones), non-speech sounds and how they are produced and perceived." (jacket)