Language and Style

Introduction; D.McIntyre & B.Busse.- PART I: PRELIMINARIES.- Analysing Literature Through Language; G.Leech.- Recent Trends in New Historical Stylistics; B.Busse.- Methodologies for Stylistic Analysis: Practices and Pedagogies; R.Carter.- PART II: THE STYLISTICS OF POETRY.- The Stylistics of Poetry: Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners'; K.Wales.- Foregrounding; W.van Peer.- A Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk Roosting'; P.Verdonk.- 'The Unprofessionals': Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems; L.Jeffries.- Text Worlds in Poetry; E.Semino.- Public House Confidence: The Indispensability of Sound Patterns; T.Barney.- PART III: THE STYLISTICS OF DRAMA.- The Stylistics of Drama: Universal Elements; M.Munkelt.- Dialogue and Characterisation in Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs': A Corpus Stylistic Analysis; D.McIntyre.- 'See Better, Lear?' See Lear Better! A Corpus-Based Pragma-Stylistic Investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear; D.Bousfield & D.Archer.- Activity Types, Incongruity and Humour in Dramatic Discourse; D.McIntyre & J.Culpepper.- PART IV: THE STYLISTICS OF NARRATIVE FICTION.- The Stylistics of Narrative Fiction; D.Shen.- Authorial Style; D.Hoover.- 2D and 3D Visualization of Stance in Popular Fiction; L.L.Opas-Hänninen & T.Seppänen.- Point of View; P.Simpson.- The Intrinsic Importance of Sentence-Type and Clause-Type to Narrative Effect: Or, How Alice Munro's 'Circle of Prayer' Gets Started; M.Toolan.- Detective Fiction, Plot Construction and Reader Manipulation: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide'; C.Emmott & M.Alexander.- Narration and Metaphor; M.Fludernik.- Wmatrix, Key-Concepts and the Narrators in Julian Barnes' 'Talking it Over'; B.Walker.- Writing Presentation, The Epistolary Novel and Free Indirect Thought; J.Bray.- 'Appeased By The Certitude': The Quiet Disintegration of the Paranoid Mind in 'The Mustache';

DAN McINTYRE is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research interests are in literary and non-literary stylistics, corpus linguistics, and the history of the English language. He has published numerous articles on a range of international journals including Language and Literature, ICAME Journal, Style, Journal of Literary Semantics and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. He is the author of Point of View in Plays (John Benjamins, 2006) and History of English: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge, 2008). He is currently working (with Leslie Jeffries) on a book on stylistics for Cambridge University Press.

BEATRIX BUSSE is an Assistant Professor and teaches English Linguistics at the Anglistisches Seminar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. She studied English and History at Osnabrueck and Keele(UK) and was a visiting researcher in Birmingham (UK), Stratford (UK), and Lancaster (UK). She has been a visiting fellow of the British Academy (2007). Her scholarly interests include the History of English, (historical pragmatics), Systemic-Functional Grammmar, Shakespeare Studies, stylistics, narratology, ecolinguistics, as well as e-learning and e-teaching. She has published articles in a range of international journals, such as Language and Literature, Journal of Historical Pragmatics and Journal of Literary Semantics. Her doctoral dissertation is an investigation of Vocactive Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare and was published with Benjamins in 2006. One of her current research projects, in which she is cooperating with Prof. Mick Short from Lancaster University (UK) is on speech, writing and thought presentation in 19th century English texts.