Critical stylistics

Jeffries, Lesley

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“…The field of Critical Stylistics has been most fully mapped out by Jeffries (2010Jeffries ( , 2014Jeffries ( , 2015. However, it owes a great debt to the work of Paul Simpson (1993) on ideology and point of view in texts and also takes much from the principles of feminist stylistics.…”

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Towards a critical stylistics of disability

Hermeston

2017

Journal of Language and Discrimination

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This article sets out the initial terrain for a critical stylistics of disability exposing the linguistic structures that encode often harmful ideologies surrounding disabled people. Disabled people are represented in literature and the media in general as ‘other’, and as curiosities to be described and explained. They are represented stereotypically as pitiable, evil, burdensome, as ‘Super Cripples’ or super humans, or as self-pitying. Such depictions can be internalised by and harmful to disabled people. Analysis will need to acknowledge that disabled people are frequently foregrounded as socially deviant in representations. Areas for analysis will include the author status as disabled or non-disabled, narrative mode, and the use of disability as metaphor. However, major areas for study will be description in noun phrases, transitivity analysis and the language of appraisal and evaluation. These can be scrutinised to expose the manner in which ideologies and stereotypes of disability are encoded.

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Towards a critical stylistics of disability

Hermeston

2017

Journal of Language and Discrimination

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“…Critical Stylistics aims to 'assemble the main general functions that a text has in representing reality' (Jeffries, 2010: 14), and may be considered as a development of CDA in terms of both theory and methodology (Jeffries, 2007(Jeffries, , 2010. One of the main criticisms of CDA is that it has not yet developed a full inventory of tools for the analyst to work with; a (perhaps inevitable) consequence of its multidisciplinary theoretical foundations.…”

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“…One of the main criticisms of CDA is that it has not yet developed a full inventory of tools for the analyst to work with; a (perhaps inevitable) consequence of its multidisciplinary theoretical foundations. Critical Stylistics attempts to counter this by introducing a systematic model of analysis which amalgamates tools from stylistics and critical linguistics, in order to uncover the linguistic choices of text producers and their possible ideological implications (Jeffries, 2007(Jeffries, , 2010.…”

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“…(adapted from Jeffries 2007Jeffries , 2010 The model expands on linguistic features frequently adopted in other critical approaches, particularly critical linguistics (Fowler, 1991(Fowler, , 1996 and CDA (Fairclough, 1989(Fairclough, , 1992(Fairclough, , 1998. The tools are displayed here according to textual function and some of their possible formal realisations.…”

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Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines

Coffey-Glover

2015

Gender and Language

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This article reports on an analysis of ideologies of masculinity in a corpus of women's magazines from a (feminist) critical stylistic perspective. I identify four core themes of ideologies of masculinity produced via assumed and implied meanings. My discussion of these themes demonstrates how the texts' constructions of masculinity ultimately uphold gender dichotomies, denying a performative understanding of 'gender' in a poststructuralist age. The ideologies discussed have potentially negative implications for female readers, because they serve to maintain notions of gender difference and uphold the power differential between women and men.

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AbstractFollowing the development of a framework for critical stylistics (Jeffries 2010) and the explication of some of the theoretical assumptions behind this framework (Jeffries 2014a(Jeffries , 2014b(Jeffries , 2015a(Jeffries , 2015b, the present article attempts to put this framework into a larger theoretical context as a way to approach textual meaning. Using examples from the popular U.S. television show, The Big Bang Theory, I examine the evidence that there is a kind of textual meaning which can be distinguished from the core propositional meaning on the one hand and from contextual, interpersonal meaning on the other.

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Textual meaning and its place in a theory of language

Jeffries

2015

Topics in Linguistics

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Following the development of a framework for critical stylistics (Jeffries 2010) and the explication of some of the theoretical assumptions behind this framework (Jeffries 2014a(Jeffries , 2014b(Jeffries , 2015a(Jeffries , 2015b, the present article attempts to put this framework into a larger theoretical context as a way to approach textual meaning. Using examples from the popular U.S. television show, The Big Bang Theory, I examine the evidence that there is a kind of textual meaning which can be distinguished from the core propositional meaning on the one hand and from contextual, interpersonal meaning on the other. The specific aim, to demonstrate a layer of meaning belonging to text specifically, is set within an argument which claims that progress in linguistics can better be served by adherence to a rigorous scientific discipline.

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Critical stylistics

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Towards a critical stylistics of disability

Towards a critical stylistics of disability

Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines

Textual meaning and its place in a theory of language

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