Contemporary Essays on Style: Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Criticism

abstract Adams adjectives alliteration American analysis Becker better called century choice clause colloquial complex composition connection context course criticism dialect diction E. B. White effect emotional English essay euphuism example expression fact feel formal function grammar Hemingway Holden Hutchinson I. A. Richards idea J. R. Firth James James's jargon kind language literary literature logical look meaning method modern Modest Proposal narrator Noam Chomsky norm nouns novel Ohmann paragraph parallel passage pattern perhaps personality phrase plain poetry proposition prose style reader relation repetition rhetorical rhythm Samuel Adams seems semantic sense sequence simple slang sort speak speaker speech statement Strether's structure Strunk and White style markers subordinate suggest Swift syntactic syntax teacher teaching tences theory of style things Thomas Hutchinson thought tion topic sentence transformational transformational grammar usage verb verbal Well-Tempered Critic words writer York