《劳特利奇文体学手册》是“当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库（升级版）”中的一本，该系列以英文原文辅以中文导读的形式出版。
本书由文体学的历史回顾、关注的核心问题、当今的研究话题、新兴和未来发展趋势等四个部分组成，共32章，每章都由该领域的专家撰写。本书突出了文体学过去、现在和未来之间的关系，强调文体学关注的核心问题和当前的热门话题，从中可以看出文体学充满希望的发展前景。本书从理论模式到实际分析，从研究方法到研究对象都有显著的创新和拓展，对于我国文体学研究的发展具有重要的启示作用。

List of tables and figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience Michael Burke
PART Ⅰ Historical perspectives in stylistics
1 Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics Michael Burke
2 Formalist stylistics Michael Burke and Kristy Evers
3 Functionalist stylistics Patricia Canning
4 Reader response criticism and stylistics Jennifer Riddle Harding
PART Ⅱ Core issues in stylistics
5 The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics Christiana Gregoriou
6 (New) historical stylistics Beatrix Busse
7 Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory Derek Bousfield
8 Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle Marina Lambrou
9 Stylistics and relevance theory Billy Clark
10 Stylistics, point of view and modality Clara Neary
11 Stylistics and narratology Dan Shen
12 Metaphor and stylistics Szilvia Csrbi
13 Speech and thought presentation in stylistics Joe Bray
PART Ⅲ Contemporary topics in stylistics
14 Pedagogical stylistics Geoff Hall
15 Stylistics, drama and performance Andrea Macrae
16 Schema theory in stylistics Catherine Emmott, Marc Alexander, and Agnes Marszalek
17 Stylistics and text world theory Ernestine Lahey
18 Stylistics and blending Barbara Dancygier
19 Cognitive poetics Margaret H. Freeman
20 Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier
21 Feminist stylistics Rocio Montoro
22 Literary pragmatics and stylistics Chantelle Warner
23 Corpus stylistics Miehaela Mahlberg
24 Stylistics and translation Jean Boase-Beier
25 Critical stylistics Lesley Jeffries
PART Ⅳ Emerging and future trends in stylistics
26 Creative writing and stylistics Jeremy Scott
27 Stylistics and real readers David Peplow and Ronald Carter
28 Stylistics and film Michael Toolan
29 Multimodality and stylistics Nina Norgaard
30 Stylistics and comics Charles Foreeville, Elisabeth El Refaie, and Gert Meesters
31 Stylistics and hypertext fiction Paola Trimarco
32 Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience Patrick Colm Hogan
Index