Rethinking Language, Text and Context : Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan

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"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 analyzed 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"--  Read more... Introduction: Language, text and context revisited / Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard -- Section 1: Plots and progression. Covert progression, language and context / Dan Shen La La Land: counterfactuality, disnarration and the forked (motorway) path / Marina Lambrou Scribbling suspense and surprise / Matthew Collins and Mel Evans -- Section 2: Patterns and predictions. Investigating syntactic simplicity in popular fiction: a corpus stylistics approach / Rocío Montoro 'We work hard here': exploring person and place deixis in a corpus of historical migrant letters / Emma Moreton The Devil has all the best tunes: an investigation of the lexical phenomenon of Brexit / Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre Corpus stylistics, norms and comparisons: studying speech in Great Expectations / Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand -- Section 3: Pragmatics and perception. 'Intending to mean, pretending to be': reflections on the limits on genre / Rukmini Bhaya Nair Indeterminacy and interpretation: what is shown and what is hidden in Michael Haneke's Caché / Billy Clark 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 Metaphoric interpretations of a short story by J.D. Salinger: a reader-response study / Laura Hidalgo Downing -- Section 4: Projection and positioning. Winnie-the-Pooh goes paralinguistic / Manuel Jobert Quotation and overhearing in Austen / Joe Bray Suppression, silencing and failure to project: ways of losing voice while using it / Chris Heffer -- 'Hey YouTube': positioning the viewer in vlogs / Stephen Pihlaja -- Section 5: Politics. The value of intertextual associations: how GM technologies are given value through association / Alexanne Don Public women: power, gender and semiotic representations / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard The citizen caught between dialogue and bureaucracy / Wolfgang Teubert