An introduction to the study of style in language, offering practical advice on how to stylistically analyse texts.

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield.

1. Language and style; 2. Text and style; 3. Discourse and context I: function; 4. Discourse and context II: interaction; 5. Text and cognition I: text comprehension; 6. Text and cognition II: text processing; 7. Methods and issues in stylistic analysis; 8. Conclusions and future directions.