《布鲁姆斯伯里文体学导论》是文体学领域的第一部“指南”，在文体学发展史上极具里程碑意义。全书对文体学的历史发展和当今动态进行了鞭辟入里的分析和探讨，既注重理论观点的新意，也强调研究范围的拓展。本书共分为40章，由多位专家学者撰写，涵盖了文体学的方方面面，是文体学研究者的不二之选。

Part I The Discipline of Stylistics
1 Introduction
Violeta Sotirova
Part II Theoretical Approaches and Research Methods
2 Structuralism and Stylistics
Linda Pilliere
3 Generative Grammar and Stylistics
Andrew Caink
4 Functional Stylistics
Benedict Lin
5 Pragmatics and Stylistics
Siobhan Chapman
6 Discourse Stylistics
Marina Lambrou
7 Cognitive Stylistics
David West
8 Feminist Stylistics
Clare Walsh
9 Corpus Stylistics
Michaela Mahlberg
10 Critical Stylistics
Lesley Jeffries
11 New Historical Stylistics
Beatrix Busse
12 Empirical Stylistics
Frank Hakemulder and Willie van Peer
13 Pedagogical Stylistics: Charting Outcomes
Sonia Zyngier and Olivia Fialho
14 Stylistics and Translation
Jean Boase-Beier
15 Stylistics and Literary Theory
Geoff Hall
16 Sociolinguistics and Stylistics
Sylvia Adamson
Part III Current Areas of Research
17 Defamiliarization and Foregrounding
Catherine Emmott and Marc Alexander
18 Metaphor
Gerard Steen
19 Mind-Style
David L. Hoover
20 Narrative Point of View
Joe Bray
21 Speech and Thought Presentation
Reiko Ikeo
22 Consciousness
Eric Rundquist
23 Deixis in Literature
Keith Green
24 Dialect in Literature
Jane Hodson
25 Dialogue
Dan McIntyre
26 Text-Worlds
Joanna Gavins
27 Texture
Peter Stockwell
28 Iconicity
Christina Ljungberg
29 Narrativity
Yanna Popova
30 Emotion
Sara Whiteley
31 Verse
Nigel Fabb
32 Odd Pronominal Narratives
Manuel Jobert
33 Irony
Massimiliano Morini
Part IV Genres and Periods
34 Old English Style
Sara M. Pons-Sanz
35 Middle English Style
Louise Sylvester
36 Early Modern Style
Sylvia Adamson
37 The Poetics of Everyday Discourse
Jessica Mason and Ronald Carter
38 Dramatic Discourse
Sarah Grandage
39 Style in Popular Literature
Rocío Montoro
40 Style in World Englishes Literature
E. Dauson Varughese
Author Index
Subject Index
Literary Writers and Texts