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Rethinking Language, Text and Context This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan’s pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text and context are analysed in the field and its related disciplines. Featuring work from an international range of contributors, the book illustrates how the field of stylistics has evolved in the 25 years since the publication of Toolan’s seminal Language, Text and Context , which laid the foundation for the analysis of the language and style in literary texts. The volume demonstrates how technological innovations and the development of new interdisciplinary methodologies, including those from corpus, cognitive and multimodal stylistics, point to the greater degree of interplay between language, text and context exemplified in current research and how this dynamic relationship can be understood by featuring examples from a variety of texts and media. Underscoring the significance of Michael Toolan’s extensive work in the field in the evolution of literary linguistic research, this volume is key reading for students and researchers in stylistics, discourse studies, corpus linguistics and interdisciplinary literary studies. Ruth Page is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include S tories and Social Media (Routledge, 2012), Narratives Online: Shared Stories and Social Media (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and R esearching the Language of Social Media (Routledge, 2014). She is the editor of D iscourse, 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 I nternational 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 Rocío Montoro) and Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel: More than Words (forth., 2019). Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics Edited by Michael Burke, Christiana Gregoriou, and Joe Bray Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots Dan Shen Kafka’s Cognitive Realism Emily T. Troscianko Stories, Meaning, and Experience Narrativity and Enaction Yanna B. Popova From Conversation to Oral Tradition A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions Raymond F. Person, Jr. Making Sense of Narrative Text Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories Michael Toolan A Prosody of Free Verse Explorations in Rhythm Richard Andrews Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative Jennifer Riddle Harding Rethinking Language, Text and Context Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan Edited by Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Studies-in-Rhetoric-and-Stylistics/book-series/RSTYL Rethinking Language, Text and Context Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan Edited by Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard First published 2019 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-815-39576-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-18322-2 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC For Michael, our friend and fellow scholar, with thanks . Contents List of Tables x List of Figures xii Acknowledgements xiii Preface xiv MICHAEL BURKE 1 Introduction: Language, Text and Context Revisited 1 RUTH PAGE, BEATRIX BUSSE AND NINA NØRGAARD SECTION 1 Plots and Progression 15 2 Covert Progression, Language and Context 17 DAN SHEN 3 La La Land : Counterfactuality, Disnarration and the Forked (Motorway) Path 29 MARINA LAMBROU 4 Scribbling Suspense and Surprise 43 MATTHEW COLLINS AND MEL EVANS SECTION 2 Patterns and Predictions 61 5 Investigating Syntactic Simplicity in Popular Fiction: A Corpus Stylistics Approach 63 ROCÍO MONTORO viii Contents 6 ‘We work hard here’: Exploring Person and Place Deixis in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Letters 79 EMMA MORETON 7 The Devil Has All the Best Tunes: An Investigation of the Lexical Phenomenon of Brexit 103 LESLEY JEFFRIES AND DAN McINTYRE 8 Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in G reat Expectations 123 MICHAELA MAHLBERG AND VIOLA WIEGAND SECTION 3 Pragmatics and Perception 145 9 ‘Intending to Mean, Pretending to Be’: Reflections on the Limits on Genre 147 RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR 10 Indeterminacy and Interpretation: What Is Shown and What Is Hidden in Michael Haneke’s C aché 164 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 177 CATHERINE EMMOTT AND MARC ALEXANDER 12 Metaphoric Interpretations of a Short Story by J. D. Salinger: A Reader-Response Study 191 LAURA HIDALGO DOWNING SECTION 4 Projection and Positioning 207 13 Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Paralinguistic . . . 209 MANUEL JOBERT 14 Quotation and Overhearing in Austen 225 JOE BRAY Contents ix 15 Suppression, Silencing and Failure to Project: Ways of Losing Voice While Using It 237 CHRIS HEFFER 16 ‘Hey YouTube’: Positioning the Viewer in Vlogs 254 STEPHEN PIHLAJA SECTION 5 Politics 267 17 The Value of Intertextual Associations: How GM Technologies Are Given Value Through Association 269 ALEXANNE DON 18 Public Women: Power, Gender and Semiotic Representations 286 CARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD 19 The Citizen Caught Between Dialogue and Bureaucracy 303 WOLFGANG TEUBERT List of Contributors 321 Index 329
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