VDM Verlag Critical Discourse Stylistics in Practice: Selected Short Stories of Sabahattin Ali

Critical Discourse Stylistics provides an alternative text processing approach to discourse analysis and stylistics studies with differentiating features in the way that it aims to relate functions of linguistic structures to certain value systems, beliefs, taken-for-granted assumptions- in short, ideology- in society. Therefore, in this approach, the emphasis is on lying bare what is ideologically embedded in linguistic structures. Critical Discourse Stylistics in Practice is a study of style, integrating a critical perspective in literary discourse analysis, as it investigates, describes, and specifies the linguistic and extra-linguistic structures that Sabahattin Ali chose to use in the production of the overall ideological message communicated through his stories. Critical Discourse Stylistics in Practice offers a useful medium of discourse analysis not only for a wide range of academicians since it relates analysis of literature to particular worldviews, ideologies through a detailed study of the practices and choices of language use but also for common readers as it will provide them with the means of critical reading of works of literature. About the Author Tuba Celiktas (1971) studied English Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She obtained her M.A. in Post-modern British Novel from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, her Ph.D. in Critical Discourse Stylistics from Hacettepe University and was research assistant at the Department of Linguistics at Hacettepe University.