<P>Reviews of the first edition:<BR><BR>''...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... ''(English Today)<BR><BR>''...an impressive single-author reference work... ''(English)<BR><BR>''...Not only is this volume indispensible for anyone, students or academics, working in any field related to stylistics, it is, like all the best dictionaries, a very good read...'' (Le Lingue del Mondo) <BR><BR>Over the past ten years there have been striking advances in stylistics. These have given rise to new terms and to revised thinking of concepts and re-definitions of terms. A Dictionary of Stylistics, 2nd Edition contains over 600 alphabeticlly listed entries: fully revised since the first and second editions, it contains many new entries.<BR><BR>Drawing material from stylistics and a range of related disciplines such as sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and traditional rhetoric, the revised Third Edition p