世界著名文体学家利奇教授和肖特教授从“文体”的定义和范畴入手，提出文体分析模式，并举例说明如何运用语言学对小说展开文体分析。作者紧跟研究前沿，对第一版进行了修订，评介了文体学领域的新发展。本书是文学文体学领域的代表作之一，亦是国际文体学教学与研究界影响深远的经典教材和著作。

Foreword
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Publisher's acknowledgements
Introduction
Aim
Language in prose and poetry
Where linguistics comes in
The scope and design of this book
Notes
PART ONE: APPROACHES AND METHODS
1 Style and choice
1.1 The domain of style
1.2 Stylistics
1.3 Style and content
1.3.1 Style as the ‘dress of thought': one kind of dualism
1.3.2 Style as manner of expression: another kind of dualism
1.3.3 The inseparability of style and content: monism
1.4 Comparing dualism and monism
1.5 Pluralism: analysing style in terms of functions
1.6 A multilevel approach to style
1.7 Conclusion: meanings of style
Notes
2 Style, text and frequency
2.1 The problem of ‘measuring' style
2.2 The uses of arithmetic
2.3 Deviance, prominence and literary relevance
2.4 Relative norms
2.5 Primary and secondary norms
2.6 Internal deviation
2.7 Pervasive and local characteristics of style
2.8 Variations in style
2.9 Features of style
2.10 Style markers and the principle of selection
2.11 Conclusion
Notes
3 A method of analysis and some examples
3.1 A checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories
3.2 Notes on the categories
3.3 Joseph Conrad: example 1
3.4 D.H. Lawrence: example 2
3.5 Henry James: example 3
3.6 Conclusion
3.7 Quantitative appendix
Notes
4 Levels of style
4.1 Language as a cognitive code
4.2 Messages and models of reality
4.3 An example: Katherine Mansfield
4.3.1 The semantic level
4.3.2 The syntactic level
4.3.3 The graphological level
4.3.4 Phonological effects
4.4 A justification for studying stylistic variants
4.5 Levels and functions
4.6 Style and qualitative foregrounding
4.7 The remainder of this book
Notes
PART TWO: ASPECTS OF STYLE
5 Language and the fictional world
5.1 Language, reality and realism
5.2 Reality and mock reality
5.3 Specification of detail: symbolism and realism
5.4 Real speech and fictional speech
5.4.1 Realism in conversation
5.4.2 Dialect and idiolect
5.4.3 Speech and character
5.5 The rendering of the fiction
5.5.1 Fictional point of view
5.5.2 Fictional sequencing
5.5.3 Descriptive focus
5.6 Conclusion
Notes
6 Mind style
6.1 How linguistic choices affect mind style
6.2 A comparison of three normal mind styles
6.3 Some more unusual mind styles
6.4 A very unusual mind style
6.4.1 General structure
6.4.2 Lexis
6.4.3 Syntax
6.4.4 Textual relations
Notes
7 The rhetoric of text
7.1 The rhetoric of text and discourse
7.2 The linearity of text
7.3 The principle of end-focus
7.4 Segmentation
7.4.1 The ‘rhythm of prose'
7.4.2 Segmentation and syntax
7.5 Simple and complex sentences
7.5.1 Coordination and subordination
7.5.2 The principle of climax: ‘last is most important'
7.5.3 Periodic sentence structure
7.5.4 Loose sentence structure
7.6 Addresser-based rhetoric: writing imitating speech
7.7 Iconicity: the imitation principle
7.7.1 Three principles of sequencing
7.7.2 Juxtaposition
7.7.3 Other forms of iconicity
7.8 Cohesion
7.8.1 Cross-reference
7.8.2 Linkage
7.9 Conclusion
Notes
8 Discourse and the discourse situation
8.1 The discourse situation of literature
8.1.1 Implied author and implied reader
8.1.2 Authors and narrators
8.1.3 Narrators and characters
8.2 Point of view and value language
8.3 Multiplicity of values
8.4 Irony
8.5 Authorial tone
8.6 Conclusion
Notes
9 Conversation in the novel