Linguistic Criticism (Opus)

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Summary: Is Linguistics useful to literary criticism?
Review: If nowadays Linguistics Scholars have too much to fight over little small branchs of the big Discipline Linguistics has become, why don't the begginers at this "science" start to take profit of all that? If you need some ideas of how you can combine some of the linguistics traditions without breaking them into small unuseful stuff, here you got many! The author reviews how can one well use linguistics towards literature getting acurated analysis. How? You have to read the book! But be aware it is not a book for outsiders of the linguistics world... Then you can think a little more about what linguistics is, what will the cool as in order to work with it you do need to think instead of fighting...

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Summary: Enjoy this subject? You have to read it!
Review: If you work with stylistics this is a basic book. What makes the book special is that it does not only introduces what Fowler calls linguistic criticism but also discuss many problematic points that anyone who works with stylistics faces. The books covers every topic of this sort of work, from terminology to practical analysis.

As an introduction to the critical study of discourse, Linguistic Criticism gives special attention to literary texts. According to Roger Fowler, Linguistics is the support to a criticism that would consider both language and context in order to point out the special effects of language into the discourse. For him, the task of considering the subjective aspects of literature with a scientific eye towards its discourse only can be achieved with the support of Linguistics. A part from that, the author does not believe that literature is the only kind of discourse that deserves such approach. The reader will also find a large bibliography about every topic discussed.

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Summary: All the fun is how you manage language...
Review: This what this book is about. The reader finds out how much he can discover while reading a literary or non literary work...