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The style and timbre of English speech and literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Konurbaev, Marklen E., 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:	Language and languages in literature. Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature. English language > Style. Language and culture.

Table of Contents:

Prolegomena to stylistic timbrology: automation and foregrounding
Neutrality in language / neutrality in speech
Classification of contexts by types of stylistic background
A glimpse of the brain: the mechanism of mental audition
Inner and outer speech: a parametric match
Individual author's style: the way to hear timbre
The style and timbre of everyday speech
The style and timbre of official documents
The timbre of journalism
The voices in fiction.