Critical Stylistics

‘What Do You Think?’ Let Me Tell You: Discourse about Texts and the Literature Classroom

“…Our analysis is largely linguistic and interpretative in focus, and seeks to uncover and examine embedded ideologies in the data that promote distinctive ways of thinking about the literary reading in the classroom. As such, it represents an example of a critical stylistic (Jeffries, 2008) approach to discourse.…”

Order and Chaos in Young Adult Science Fiction: A Critical Stylistic Analysis

“…13-14). Jeffries (2016) demonstrates that critical stylistics depends on textual conceptual functions that reveal a level of meaning between linguistic structure and its use in context. Halliday's ideational metafunction is the focus of Jeffries' critical stylistics.…”

“…The textual conceptual functions assist in exposing the ideology hidden in a text by linking linguistic structure to higher-level conceptual meaning (Jeffries, 2016, p.160). The textual conceptual functions proposed by Jeffries (2010Jeffries ( , 2016 are as follows:…”

“…According to Jeffries (2016), Negating can portray mental images of the negated ideology. Negating works on the textual level between the semantic and the pragmatic meanings.…”

Disability and Discourse Analysis

“…Jeffries (2010:3;2014:412;2015:159) is keen to position the Critical Stylistics approach that she instead espouses within the wider enterprise of CDA, stressing that both are preoccupied with examining and exposing ideology in texts, and both take into account context, but she emphasises the need for a set of tools for close linguistic analysis to detect encoded ideologies. These tools include close analysis of noun phrase structure, transitivity patterns and so on (Jeffries 2010). Grue (pp.…”