This introductory work offers a fundamental, instructional, and easy-to-read outline of all the aspects of stylistics from, among others, a text-linguistic perspective. The work covers, for example, the functional types of style, stylistic competence, style and context, the communicative effects of stylistic means, and stylistic coherence. The work ties in with the most current research and extensively discusses results from discourse analysis and functional grammar.
Key Features:

• Comprehensive introduction to German stylistics
• Special consideration of the function of speech and writing styles in certain communicative situations
• Suitable as basic reading for course work and for self-study