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22. Ibid, 164. 23. Ibid, ix. 24. a. burgess (1973), 15. 25. Ibid, 63. 26. l. garvin (1958), esp. J. c. freeman (1970)). 27. a. richards (1929), 181. 28. r. jakobson (1961). 29. k. halliday (1973), (esp. Chapter 2) and many other publications by the same author since 1970. 30. k. halliday (1971). 31. See esp. r. ohmann (1971a, 1971b, 1972). 32. See r. fowler (1977), 103–113. 33. On the distinction between sense and reference, see for example j. lyons (1977), 174. 34. f. ihwe (1976). 35. On the application of the notion of foregrounding to the practical interpretation of poetry, see g.

His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face. He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt. [11] My earliest recollections are of my father and my mother bending over my cot and of the difference in personal odour that subsisted between my two parents. My father, certainly, did not have so pleasant an odour as my mother. I remember I would be told infantile stories, altogether appropriate to my infantile station.

2. e. enkvist (1964, 1973), and s. chatman (1971a). 3. On authorial style, see for example, s. ullmann (1973). 4. k. wimsatt (1941). 5. l. spitzer (1948), 19, 27 ff. 6. On the analogy between science and stylistics, see g. leech (1977b). This article expands on the methodology of stylistics as presented here. 7. w. bailey (1969). 8. From a letter of 12 December 1857, to Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie. 9. The /w/ could have been pronounced in Lyly’s English. 10. See c. bally (1951), 12–16, and m. riffaterre (1971), 30.

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