The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction : A Linguistic Stylistic Approach

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non...

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Main Author Dutta-Flanders, Reshmi (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137470287
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-47028-7
Physical DescriptionXVII, 500 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.

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