A Linguistic Study of Critical Stylistics in Relation to Contemporary Medical Poetry

This study explores the application of Jeffries’ Critical Stylistics (2010) to the analysis of contemporary medical poetry. It outlines the development of Critical Stylistics across various disciplines, and discusses the textual-conceptual tools associated with Critical Stylistics (CS), as well as the ideology and the linguistic features relevant to poetry. Moreover, the study also provides a summary of the data selected for this purpose and the tools of CS, demonstrating that this analytical framework can be effectively applied to the genre of medical poetry. Accordingly, the paper considers two main questions: What kind of ideologies does the textual-conceptual tools reflect? How medical life is reflected within this genre?