Comprehensive and easy to use, this dictionary explains clearly and concisely over 600 alphabetically listed entries. Drawing material from a range of sources, including sociolinguistics, semiotics, poetics and traditional rhetoric, it provides a valuable reference work of the terminology which surrounds stylistics, discourse analysis, text linguistics, and literary theory and criticism. With numerous quotations, explanations for many basic terms from grammatical theory and an exhaustive bibliography this is a valuable reference work.