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Practising Stylistics : Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neary, Clara.
- Series:
- Linguistic Approaches to Literature Series
- Linguistic Approaches to Literature Series ; v.45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simpson, Paul.
- Pragmatics.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Local Subjects:
- Simpson, Paul.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.
- Summary:
- Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. In its contributions and design, this book reflects the artisanal ethos of stylistics itself.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction / Clara Neary, Simon Statham, Peter Stockwell
- Charles Dickens, teacher / Katie Wales
- Trumps superlatives, his discursive absolutism, and the changing character of the public sphere / Martin Montgomery
- Textual momentum / Peter Stockwell
- Reading Covid poetry / Marcello Giovanelli
- Non-events in stylistics / Joe Bray
- On satire and The Third Policeman / Michael Toolan
- A cross-cultural study of cohesion and narrative schema in a short story entitled The Stranger / Marina Lambrou
- And I was silent / Siobhan Chapman
- Suspension in pedagogical stylistics / Sonia Zyngier
- Space oddities / Dan McIntyre
- Ghost worlds / Billy Clark
- The TrumpHarris 2024 presidential debate / Sandrine Sorlin
- Verbal and visual markers of discontent in Dont Worry Darling / Helen Ringrow
- The rhetoric of denunciation in Julie Otsukas Japanese trilogy / Manuel Jobert
- Point of view and modality in Brian Friels The Diviner / Clara Neary
- Towards a local grammar of speech presentation in narrative fiction / Michaela Mahlberg
- Sharp wit, northern grit and verbal sparring in Happy Valley / Christiana Gregoriou
- Narrative viewpoint, Free Indirect Discourse and irony in a garden-path chapter of All Names Have Been Changed / Jane Lugea
- The rhythm of the humdrum and the clamour of the lambeg / Jeremy Scott
- Characterisation and adaptation of the drunken Dr Quirke / Simon Statham
- Alternating focalisation in Paul Lynchs Prophet Song / Naomi Adam
- Index
- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 90-272-4370-0
- 9789027243706
- OCLC:
- 1586553081
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