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Introduction
Rocio Montoro works at the University of Granada. Her most recent publication is The creative use of absences A corpus stylistic approach to Henry Green’s Living. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 23:3 (2018), pp. 279–310
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In this paper, we look at characterisation in the popular fiction genre Chick Lit by analysing laughter-talk in conversational humour. This is the first systematic analysis of how a variety of humour phenomena are linguistically realised in the genre despite humour being as aspect recurrently referred to as intrinsic to the genre. We use a combinat...
In this paper, we use a corpus stylistic methodology to investigate whether serious (i.e., ‘literary’) fiction is syntactically more complex than popular (i.e., ‘genre’) fiction. This is on the basis of literary critical claims that the structural complexity of serious fiction is one of the features that distinguishes it from popular literature (wh...
In an article published in this journal, Partington (2014) addresses the criticism
often made against corpus linguistics that it is apparently unable to
cope with ‘absences’. He convincingly argues that corpus linguistics is better
suited to account for absences than has been claimed. I resume the debate
by discussing a type of absence not fully ad...
This is a pre-print version of the chapter.
This Bloomsbury Companion provides an overview of stylistics with a detailed outline of the scope and history of the discipline, as well as its key areas of research.
The main research methods and approaches within the field are presented with a detailed overview and then illustrated with a chapter of...
This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...
In recent times, 'Chick Lit' has risen to a certain level of prominence. This is the first book length study that looks into the distinctive features of this much-discussed genre.
Chick Lit is examined in relation to its linguistic peculiarities and their role as far as narrative, sociological and feminist issues are concerned, amongst others. Mon...
This chapter has ten sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Semantics; 5.
Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 6. Onomastics; 7. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 8. New Englishes and
Creolistics; 9. Second Language Acquisition; 10. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. Section 1 is by Vere...
Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language in literature and in other types of text. Key Terms in Stylistics provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, along with sections that explain relevant terms, concepts and key thinkers listed from A to Z.
The book comprises entries on di...
English and Cultural Studies courses in both the UK and the United States have long shown a willingness to incorporate cinema as part of their teaching syllabuses, not so much because of cinema’s relationship to more traditional forms of artistic expression, such as literature, but because of its status as a discipline worth investigating on its ow...