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Author:   Ruth Page ,  Beatrix Busse ,  Nina Nørgaard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780367586850

ISBN 10:   0367586851
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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

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Ruth Page is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Stories and Social Media (Routledge, 2012), Narratives Online: Shared Stories and Social Media (2018), and Researching the Language of Social Media (Routledge, 2014). She is the editor of Discourse, Context & Media. Beatrix Busse is Professor of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University. Her research interests include the history of English, English historical linguistic and Shakespeare studies, stylistics and corpus linguistics. She is the co-editor of the series Discourse Patterns and reviews editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. Nina Nørgaard is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests lie within the fields of stylistics, multimodality, multimodal stylistics, critical discourse analysis and the semiotics of architecture. She has a keen interest in combining work and insights from the (traditionally separated) fields of stylistics and multimodality. Her major publications include Key Terms in Stylistics (2010; co-edited with Beatrix Busse and Rocio Montoro) and Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel: More than Words (2018).

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