Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Permission acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introducing contemporary stylistics -- 1 Contemporary stylistics -- Part II Literature as language -- 2 Foregrounding -- 3 Phonemes to sound patterning -- 4 Morphemes to words -- 5 Phrase to sentence -- 6 Register, lexical semantics, and cohesion -- Part III Literature as discourse -- 7 Dialogue and spoken discourse -- 8 Speech, thought, and narration -- 9 Modality and point of view -- 10 Transitivity and ideology -- 11 Varieties and invented languages -- Part IV Text as cognition -- 12 Figure and ground -- 13 Deixis and deictic shift -- 14 Schemas, scripts, and prototypes -- 15 Cognitive grammar and construal -- Part V Reading as mental spaces -- 16 Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration -- 17 Text-worlds -- 18 Negation and lacuna -- Part VI Reading as experience -- 19 Analysing the multimodal text -- 20 Understanding emotions -- Part VII Reading as data -- 21 Corpus stylistics -- 22 Investigating readers -- Part VIII Conclusion -- 23 Future stylistics -- References -- Index