On Our Authors' Stylistics

To our authors.

SHORTLY after articulating the mission statement for ANESTHESIOLOGY a couple of years ago, the Editorial Board turned to the question of who our audiences were and how we could better serve them. Readers, of course, are our chief audience, and I will write next month about our efforts to better serve our readers. But to meet our mission, which is to advance our medical specialty by promoting ne...

Introducing our Authors.

Stylistics: Corpus Approaches

Stylistics, which may be defined as the study of the language of literature, makes use of various tools of linguistic analysis. Corpus linguistics is opening up new vistas for the study of language, and there are interesting similarities in the approaches of stylistics and corpus linguistics. Stylistics is a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory a...

Towards an integrated corpus stylistics

Over recent years, the use of corpora in stylistic analysis has grown in popularity. However, questions still remain over the remit of corpus stylistics, its distinction from corpus linguistics generally and its capacity to explain complex stylistic effects. This article argues in favour of an integrated corpus stylistics; that is, an approach to corpus stylistics that integrates it with other ...

ASFE-DL: Semantics, Syntaxes and Stylistics (R3)