Example sentences for: stylistics

How can you use “stylistics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her book establishes a framework for such analysis designed both to describe sexism in a text and, through a process she names feminist stylistics, to deconstruct the way in which point of view, agency, metaphor, and other features of the text are unexpectedly closely related to matters of gender.

  • In giving readers the means to recognize--and, if they choose, to resist--such characterizations, Feminist Stylistics is an important, ground-breaking book.

  • Although the book is described lightly as a tool-kit-- and indeed Mills's Summary lists questions through which a text can be analyzed for its representations of gender-- Feminist Stylistics is a complex, many-layered approach to reading that enables a reader to look beneath overt content in order to see hidden messages which, while often unrecognized by both writer and reader, nevertheless reinforce and help to legitimatize stereotypical notions about gender differences embedded in our culture.

  • In the second half of the book, Mills employs the strategies of feminist stylistics to expose the workings of gender at three levels of language--the word, the phrase or sentence, and larger-scale discourse.

  • In Feminist Stylistics , Sara Mills challenges socially sanctioned ways of thinking as she confronts the politics of language-use head on.


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