...publications by PaSTY members

 

 

Books

Culpeper, J. (2002) Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts. London: Longman.

Culpeper, J., Short, M. and Verdonk, P. (eds) (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context. London: Longman.

Leech, G. (1969) A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman.

Leech, G. (1974) Semantics. London: Penguin.

Leech, G. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman.

Leech, G. and Short, M. (1981) Style in Fiction. London: Longman.

Semino, E. (1997) Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts. London: Longman.

Semino, E. and Culpeper, J. (eds) (2002) Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Semino, E. and Short, M. (forthcoming) Corpus Stylistics: A Corpus-based Study of Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation in Narratives. London: Routledge.

Short, M. (ed.) (1989) Reading, Analysing and Teaching Literature. London: Longman.

Short, M. (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. London: Longman.

 

Articles

Pragmatics

Archer, D. E. (2002) ‘Can innocent people be guilty? A sociopragmatic analysis of examination transcripts from the Salem Witchcraft Trials’, Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3, 1, 1-31

Culpeper, J. (2000) ‘Data in historical pragmatics: spoken interaction (re)cast as writing’, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 1, 2, 175-99

Culpeper, J. (1999) ‘Modifying pragmatic force: hedges in a corpus of early modern English dialogues’, in Jucker, A. H., Fritz, G. and Lebsanft, F. (eds), Historical dialogue analysis, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 293-312

Culpeper, J. (1996) ‘Towards an anatomy of impoliteness’, Journal of Pragmatics, 25, 349-67

Culpeper, J. (1994) ‘Why relevance theory does not explain the relevance of reformulations’, Language and Literature, 3, 1, 43-8

Culpeper, J. and Semino, E. (2000) 'Constructing witches and spells: speech acts and activity types in Early Modern England', Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 1, 1, 97-116

Semino, E., Heywood, J. and Short, M. (forthcoming) 'Methodological problems in the analysis of a corpus of conversations about cancer', Journal of Pragmatics


Stylistic theory

Semino, E. (2001) ‘On readings, literariness and schema theory: a reply to Jeffries’, Language and Literature, 10, 4, 345-55

Semino, E. (2000) ‘Schema and script theory’, in Byram, M. (ed.), Routledge Encyclopaedia of Language Teaching and Learning, London, Routledge, 525-27

Short, M. (2002) ‘Who is stylistics and what use is she to students of English Language and Literature?’, Poetica, 58, 33-53

Short, M. (2001) ‘Research questions, research paradigms and research methodologies in the study of narrative’, in Chatman, S. and van Peer, W. (eds.), New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective, Princeton University Press, 339-55

Short, M. (1973) 'Some thoughts on foregrounding and interpretation', Language and Style, 79-93

Short, M. and van Peer, W. (1999) ‘A reply to Mackay’, Language. & Literature, 8 (3), 269-75

Short, M., Freeman, D., van Peer, W. and Simpson, P. (1998) ‘Stylistics, criticism and mythrepresentation again: squaring the circle with Ray Mackay’s subjective solution for all problems’, Language and Literature 7, 1, 40-50


The stylistics of poetry

Short, M. (1993) ‘To analyse a poem stylistically: 'To Paint a Water Lily' by Ted Hughes’, in Verdonk, P. (ed.) Twentieth Century Poetry: From Text to Context, London, Routledge, 7-20

Short, M. (1984) 'Who is stylistics?', Shanghai Foreign Languages Journal, No. 1, 14-21 & No. 2, 37-42

Short, M. (1973) '"Prelude I" to a literary linguistic stylistics', Style, 149-59

Semino, E. (2002) 'Stylistics and linguistic variation in poetry', Journal of English Linguistics, 30, 1, 28-50

Semino, E. (1996) 'Possible worlds in poetry', Journal of Literary Semantics, 25, 3, 189-224

Semino, E. (1995) 'Schema theory and the analysis of text worlds in poetry', Language and Literature, 4, 2, 79-108

Semino, E. (1993) ‘An analysis of the opening scene of the play The Room by Harold Pinter’, Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, 2, 395-421

Semino, E. (1992) ‘Notes on Keith Green's "Deixis and the poetic persona": some further reflections on deixis of poetry’, Language and Literature, 1, 2


The stylistics of prose fiction

Short, M. (1999) ‘Graphological deviation, style variation and point of view in Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh’, Journal of Literary Studies, 15 (3/4), 305-23

Short, M. (1995) ‘Discourse analysis and power relationships in The Ebony Tower by John Fowles’, in Verdonk, P. and Weber, J.-J. (eds) The Literary Stylistic Criticism of 19th and 20th Century Prose, London, Routledge, 45-62

Short, M. (1995) ‘Understanding texts: point of view’, in Brown, G., Malmkjaer, K., Pollitt, A. and Williams, A. (eds) Language and Understanding, Oxford University Press, 169-90

Short, M. (1994) ‘Mind style’, in Asher, R. E. and Simpson, J. M. Y. (eds) The Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 2504-5

Short, M. (1994) ‘Style: definitions’, in Asher, R. E. and Simpson, J. M. Y. (eds) The Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 4375-8

Short, M. (1976) 'Why we sympathise with Lennie', Journal of the Midlands Association of Linguistic Studies, 1-10

Short, M., Semino, E. and Culpeper, J. (2000) ‘Language and context(s): Jane Gardam’s Bilgewater', in Bex, T., Burke, M. and Stockwell, P. (eds.), Contextualised stylistics: in honour of Peter Verdonk, Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi, 131-51

Short, M. and Shippey, T. A. (1972) 'Framing and distancing in Kipling's The Man Who Would be King', Journal of Narrative Technique, 75-87


The stylistics of drama

Culpeper, J. (2000) ‘An approach to characterisation: the case of Katherina in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Language and Literature, 9, 4, 291-316

Culpeper, J. (1998) ‘(Im)politeness in drama’, in Verdonk, P., Short, M. H. and Culpeper, J. (eds.), Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London, Routledge, 83-95

Culpeper, J. (1996) ‘Inferring character from text: attribution theory and foregrounding theory’, Poetics, 23, 335-61

McIntyre, D. (2004) ‘Point of view in drama: a socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle.’ Language and Literature 13, 2: 139-60

McIntyre, D. (2002) ‘Viewpoint and characterisation in Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle.’ in Csábi, S. and Zerkowitz, J. (eds) Textual Secrets – The Message of the Medium: Proceedings of the 21st PALA Conference. Eötvös Loránd University: Budapest. 423-29

Short, M. (1998) ‘The dramatic text as a template for dramatic performance’, in Verdonk, P., Short, M. H. and Culpeper, J. (eds.), Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London, Routledge, 6-18

Short, M. (1981) 'Discourse analysis and the analysis of drama', Applied Linguistics, 180-202


Metaphor

Heywood, J., Semino, E. and Short, M. (2002) 'Linguistic metaphor identification in two extracts from novels', Language and Literature, 11, 1, 35-54

Semino, E. (2002) 'A sturdy baby or a derailing train? Metaphorical representations of the euro in British and Italian newspapers', Text, 22, 1, 107-39

Semino, E. and Masci, M. (1996) 'Politics is football: metaphor in the discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy', Discourse and Society, 7, 2, 243-269

Semino, E. and Swindlehurst, K. (1996) 'Metaphor and mind style in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', Style, 30, 1, 143-166


Discourse presentation

Leech, G., McEnery, A. and Wynne, M. (1997) ‘Further levels of annotation’, in Garside, R., Leech, G. and McEnery, A. (eds) Corpus Annotation. London: Longman. 85-101

McIntyre, D., Bellard-Thomson, C., Heywood, J., McEnery, A., Semino, E. and Short, M. (2003) 'The construction of a corpus to investigate the presentation of speech, thought and writing in written and spoken British English', in Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. and McEnery, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 Conference. Lancaster University: UCREL Technical Papers 16. 513-22

Semino, E., Short, M. and Culpeper, J. (1997) ‘Using a corpus to test and refine a model of speech and thought presentation’, Poetics 25. 17-43

Semino, E., Short, M. and Wynne, M. (1999) ‘Hypothetical words and thoughts in contemporary British narratives’, Narrative 7:3. 307-34

Short, M. (forthcoming) ‘A corpus-based approach to speech, thought and writing presentation’, in Wilson, A., Rayson, P. and McEnery, A. (eds) Corpus Linguistics by the Lune: A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.

Short, M. (2001) ‘Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse: report/(re)presentation using a corpus approach.’ in Biermann, I. and Combrink, A. (eds) Poetics, Linguistics and History: Discourses of War and Conflict. Potchefstroom University Press: Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Short, M., Semino, E. and Culpeper, J. (1996) ‘Using a corpus for stylistics research: speech and thought presentation.’ in Short, M. and Thomas, J. (eds) Using Corpora in Language Research. London: Longman. 110-31

Short, M., Semino, E. and Wynne, M. (2002) ‘Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse report/(re)presentation using a corpus approach.’ Language and Literature, 11, 4, 325-55

Short, M., Semino, E. and Wynne, M. (1997) ‘A (free direct) reply to Paul Simpson’s discourse’, Journal of Literary Semantics. 26:3. 219-28

Short, M., Wynne, M. and Semino, E. (1999) ‘Reading reports: discourse presentation in a corpus of narratives, with special reference to news reports.’ in Diller, H. J. and E. O. Gert Stratmann (eds) English via Various Media. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter. 39-66

Wynne, M., Short, M. and Semino, E. (1998) ‘A corpus-based investigation of speech, thought and writing presentation in English narrative texts.’ in Renouf, A. (ed.) Explorations in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 231-45


Stylistics and pedagogy

McIntyre, D. (2003) ‘Using foregrounding theory as a teaching methodology in a stylistics course.’ Style 37:1, 1-13.

Short, M. (1993) 'Stylistics upside down: using stylistics in the teaching of language and literature' Textus VI, 3-30

Short, M. (1991) 'Discourse analysis in stylistics and literature pedagogy', Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 11, 181-95

Short, M. (1984) 'What I know about reading and what little I know about intensive reading', Beijing Foreign Languages Teaching Journal, 49-56

Short, M. and Archer, D. (2003) 'Designing a world-wide web-based stylistics course and investigating its effectiveness', Style 37(1): 27-64

Short, M. and Breen, M. (1988) 'Innovations in the teaching of literature (1): Putting Stylistics in its Place', Critical Quarterly 30, 2, 1, 1-8

Short, M. and Breen, M. (1988) 'Innovations in the teaching of literature (4): commentary on "New Ways of Reading"', Critical Quarterly 30, 2, 22-24


Evaluation

Short, M. and Halász, L. (2002) ‘A cross-cultural study of fictional and non-fictional text understanding’, Poetics, 30, 3, 195-219

Short, M. and Semino, E. (forthcoming) ‘Stylistics and Literary Evaluation’, in Van Peer, W. (ed.)  The Quality of Literature: Studies in Literary Evaluation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Short, M. and Van Peer, W. (1989) 'Accident: Stylisticians evaluate', in Short, M. (ed.) Reading, Analysing and Teaching Literature. London: Longman, 22-71

Short, M. and Alderson, J. C. (1989) 'Reading literature', in Short, M. (ed.) Reading, Analysing and Teaching Literature. London: Longman, 71-119


Non-literary stylistics

Short, M. and Wen Zhong, H. U. (1997) ‘Analyzing the changing character and sophistication of TV advertisements in the People’s Republic of China’, Text 17, 4, 491-515

 

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