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Article: De la langue au style.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2007
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De la langue au style. Ed. by JEAN MICHEL GOUVARD. (Textes et Langue) Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon. 2005. 442 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7297-0767-5.
Jean Michel Gouvard's De la langue au style offers a comprehensive overview of style and stylistics in the French language, gathering together articles by a whole range of specialists, stylisticians, and linguists interested in phonology, syntax, discourse, and lexis. Contributions in the fields of semiotics, grammar, poetry, and literature, supplemented by a rich bibliography, make for a very valuable book, quite unique in its variety of approaches. Charles Bally's Traite de stylistique francaise (1909) is ...