Chapter 4
Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception
The oppositional reader in political discourse
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Text World Theory and critical reception
- 3.Resisting “out loud”
- 4.Resisting the writer (…and the other discourse participants)
- 5.
Resisting the text-world
- 6.Conclusion: towards a stylistics of critical reception
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