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• Language, said Michael Halliday, is a “social semiotic” and as such needs to be studied in terms of the lived experience of its users, rather than as an abstract system of logically consistent rules.
• What is the text’s own rhetorical situation? How can we recover these conditions in any pure, unmediated way?  The general shift from textualist to contextualist stylistics
• What is the relationship between style and ideology in the literary text?
  Cultural critics, while brilliantly interrogating the ideological implicatedness of a lit-
  erary text, rarely engage with its language
• stylisticians, on the other hand, although acknowledging the ideological dimensions of the literary text, rarely move beyond its
  language