Rethinking language, text and context : interdisciplinary research in stylistics in honour of Michael Toolan /: interdisciplinary research in stylistics in honour of Michael Toolan. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse, Nina Nørgaard.
• Editors: Page, Ruth E, 1972-; Busse, Beatrix; Nørgaard, Nina
• Other Names: Toolan, Michael J honouree.
• Contents: Preface Michael Burke 1. Introduction: Language, Text & Context Revisited. Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard 2. Covert Progression, Language and Context. Dan Shen 3. La La Land : Counterfactuality, Disnarration and the Forked (Motorway) Path. Marina Lambrou 4. Scribbling Suspense and Surprise. Matt Evans and Mel Collins 5. Investigating Syntactic Simplicity in Popular Fiction: A Corpus Stylistics Approach. Rocío Montoro 6. ‘We work hard here’: Exploring Person and Place Deixis in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Letters. Emma Moreton 7. The Devil has all the Best Tunes: An Investigation of the Lexical Phenomenon of Brexit. Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre 8. Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand. 9. ‘Intending to Mean, Pretending to Be’: Reflections on the Limits on Genre. Rukmini Bhaya Nair 10. Indeterminacy and Interpretation: What is Shown and what is Hidden in Michael Haneke’s Caché . Billy Clark 11. Reliability, Unreliability, Reader Manipulation and Plot Reversals: Strategies for Constructing and Challenging the Credibility of Characters in Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction. Catherine Emmott and Marc Alexander 12. Metaphoric Interpretations of a Short Story by J.D. Salinger: A Reader Response Study. Laura Hidalgo Downing 13. Winnie the Pooh Goes Paralinguistic. Manuel Jobert 14. Quotation and Overhearing in Austen. Joe Bray 15. Suppression, Silencing and Failure to Project: Ways of Losing Voice While Using It. Chris Heffer 16. ‘Hey YouTube’: Positioning the Viewer in Vlogs. Stephen Pihlaja 17. The Value of Intertextual Associations: How GM Technologies are Given Value Through Association. Lexie Don 18. Public Women: Power, Gender and Semiotic Representations. Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard 19. The Citizen Caught Between Dialogue and Bureaucracy. Wolfgang Teubert
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 808.042; Language and languages -- Style; Linguistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351183208; 9781351183215; 9781351183192; 9781351183222
• Related ISBNs: 9780815395768
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