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- Alderson, J. Charles, et al.
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Implementing and evaluating a self-assessment mechanism for the web-based Language and Style course
- 2006
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Ingår i: Language and Literature. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-9470 .- 1461-7293. ; 15:3, s. 291-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on the project to design and implement a web-based mechanism for formative self-assessment, to be used as part of Mick Short's online stylistics course, Language and Style (see the preface to this issue for details). Using the self-assessment mechanism, students can compare their own performance on extended academic tasks (the stylistic analysis of three literary texts – a poem, a piece of prose fiction and a drama extract) with benchmarked sample answers. In this article we describe the process of developing benchmarks for the self-assessment mechanism and explain how this mechanism works in practice. Finally, we discuss students’ reactions to the self-assessment instruments, as part of our own assessment of their validity and pedagogical value.
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Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The chapters provide critical discussion of the concept of impact, as well as an examination of both the constraints and opportunities of the impact agenda. The book includes:Case studies of impact-focused research from leading scholars, such as M. Lynne Murphy, David Britain, Peter French and Bas Aarts; Discussion of impact from the perspective of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF); Insights and opinions from academics, practitioners and journalists; Personal reflection on the nature of impact from the ESRC’s Interim Chief Executive; Practical advice on generating and evidencing impact.With chapters from international authors exploring impact both within and outside the context of the UK REF, Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda will be essential reading for early-career researchers, established academics and PhD students interested in developing impact from their research.
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- Bousfield, Derek, et al.
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Creative linguistic impoliteness as aggression in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of literary semantics. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 0341-7638 .- 1613-3838. ; 47:1, s. 43-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war film Full Metal Jacket (1987) dramatically represents US Marine Corps basic training during the Vietnam War as both gruelling and brutalising. The brutal, linguistically aggressive and physically intimidating scenes purport to detail the dehumanising process that Marine Corps recruits were put through in preparation for combat during that period. In the film, the recruits are trained by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, played by the actor R. Lee Ermey, who is himself an ex-Marine Corps drill instructor (1965–1967) and who also served in Vietnam in 1968. As a result of his experience as an instructor, Ermey was given free rein by Kubrick to write his own dialogue for the abusive barrack room and field training scenes in order to lend the drama an air of authenticity (see Ermey 2017). Within the fictional world of the film, the intense training and disciplinary regime ultimately causes one recruit, Private Leonard Lawrence, to crack psychologically. Private Lawrence is nicknamed ‘Gomer Pyle’ by Hartman upon their first meeting, this name being a direct allusion to the hapless character of the same name who was a US Marine recruit in the sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which ran from 1964–1969 – contemporaneously with the time period in which Full Metal Jacket is set. This insulting allusion is merely the start of a long line of linguistically impolite/aggressive and ultimately physically aggressive interactions which Lawrence/Pyle suffers at the hands of Hartman, both directly and, later in the film as a result of Hartman’s orchestrations, from the other recruits. Under this unrelenting barrage of impoliteness, aggression, and abuse, Lawrence/Pyle eventually shoots Hartman dead before turning his rifle on himself and committing suicide. Thus, the film argues that the dehumanising effect of the basic training, which was ostensibly carried out to toughen up and mentally prepare conscripted recruits for combat in Vietnam, had a profound, brutalising and (potentially) utterly destructive effect on those subjected to it. In this article, we explore the creative linguistic aggression displayed by the character of Hartman. We focus particularly on the reasons underlying the creativity of Hartman’s impoliteness and aggression, and argue that these are essentially to foreground the seriousness of the training regime which the recruits must follow.
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- Busse, Beatrix, et al.
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John McGahern’s stylistic and narratological art
- 2010
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Ingår i: Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology. - : OpenEdition. - 1951-6215. ; :5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Irish writer John McGahern is acknowledged as a master stylist in both his novels and his short stories. In this article we discuss the stylistic and narratological factors that contribute to the artistry in McGahern’s short story writing. We analyse three stories: “A Slip-up”, “All Sorts of Impossible Things”, and “Creatures of the Earth”, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The stylistic devices that we concentrate on are speech and thought presentation, negative polarity, lexico-semantic foregrounding, prospection and projection, collocation and semantic prosody, and keyness. We argue that by analysing these devices it is possible to gain an insight into the way in which McGahern draws the reader into his stories and generates empathetic responses to his characters. Consequently, these stylistic techniques may be seen as integral to McGahern’s style as a writer.
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Communicating Linguistics : Language, Community and Public Engagement
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of the wide range of public engagement activities currently being undertaken in linguistics, as well as practically focused advice aimed at helping linguists to do public engagement well. From podcasts to popular writing, from competitions to consultancy, from language creation to community projects, there are many ways in which linguists can share their research with the public. Bringing together insights from leading linguists working in academia as well as non-university professions, this unique collection:Provides a forum for the discussion of challenges and opportunities of public engagement in linguistics in order to shape best practiceDocuments best practice through a summary of some of the many excellent public engagement projects currently taking place internationallyCelebrates the long tradition of public engagement in linguistics, a discipline which is often misunderstood despite its direct and fundamental importance to everyday lifeBreaking down long-standing divisions between universities and the wider community, this book will be of significant value to academics in linguistics but also teachers, policy makers and anyone interested in better understanding the nature and use of language in society.
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- Culpeper, Jonathan, et al.
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Drama : Stylistic aspects
- 2006
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. ; , s. 772-785
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- Culpeper, Jonathan, et al.
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Historical inguistics
- 2015
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Ingår i: Exploring Language and Linguistics. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ; , s. 245-273
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- Ho, Yu-Fang, et al.
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Text-world annotation and visualization for crime narrative reconstruction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. - : Oxford University Press. - 2055-7671 .- 2055-768X. ; 34:2, s. 310-334
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- To assist legal professionals with more effective information processing and evaluation, we aim to develop software to identify and visualize the key information dispersed in the unstructured language data of a criminal case. A preliminary model of the software, Worldbuilder, is described in Wang et al. (2016a, b). The present article focuses on explaining the theory and vision behind the computational development of the software, which has involved establishing a means to annotate discourse for visualization purposes. The design of the annotation scheme is based on a cognitive model of discourse processing, Text World Theory (TWT), which describes and tracks how language users create a dynamic representation of events (i.e. text-worlds) in their minds as they communicate. As this is the first time TWT has informed the computational analysis of language, the model is augmented with Contextual Frame Theory, among other linguistic apparatus, to account for the complexities in the data and its translation from text to visualization. Using a statement from the Meredith Kercher murder trial as a case study, we illustrate the efficacy of the augmented TWT framework in the careful and purposeful preparation of linguistic data for computational visualization. Ultimately, this research bridges Cognitive and Computational Linguistics, improves the TWT model’s analytical accuracy, and yields a potentially useful tool for forensic work.
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- Ho, Yufang, et al.
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Projecting (un)certainty : A text-world analysis of three statements from the Meredith Kercher murder case
- 2018
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Ingår i: English Text Construction. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1874-8767 .- 1874-8775. ; 11:2, s. 286-317
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses Text World Theory (Werth 1999; Gavins 2007) in conjunction with VUE (Visual Understanding Environment) concept mapping software to analyze three statements from the trial of Amanda Knox, who was charged (along with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito) with the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007. We compare the cognitive patterns (i.e. text-worlds) as reflected in Knox’s statements and use the insights gained to guide an examination of their individual linguistic features and associated potential legal implications. In the first two dictated statements, Knox is projected as an actor responsible for the reported actions/events that implicate her in the crime, whereas in the third statement (handwritten in English), she is projected as a senser, presenting more prominent epistemic uncertainty and indicating bewilderment. Further micro-level linguistic comparison indicates signs of textual alteration in the first two statements, i.e. crucial text was altered and thus resulted in a change of meaning and legal significance.
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- Jeffries, Lesley, et al.
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Stylistics
- 2010. - 1
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- Mahlberg, Michaela, et al.
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A case for corpus stylistics : Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale
- 2011
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Ingår i: English Text Construction. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1874-8767 .- 1874-8775. ; 4:2, s. 204-227
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- In this article we investigate keywords and key semantic domains in Fleming’s Casino Royale. We identify groups of keywords that describe elements of the fictional world such as characters and settings as well as thematic signals. The keyword groups fall into two broad categories that are characterized as text-centred and reader-centred, with the latter providing particular clues for interpretation. We also compare the manually identified keyword groups with key semantic domains that are based on automatic semantic analysis. The comparison shows, for instance, how words that do not seem to fit a semantic domain can be seen as reader-centred keywords fulfilling specific textual functions. By linking our analysis to arguments in literary criticism, we show how quantitative and qualitative approaches can usefully complement one another.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-, et al.
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30 years of Language and Literature
- 2022
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Ingår i: Language and Literature. - : Sage Publications. - 0963-9470 .- 1461-7293. ; 31:4, s. 465-468
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Characterisation
- 2014
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Ingår i: The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ; , s. 149-164
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Corpora and literature
- 2013
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Ingår i: Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. ; , s. 1182-1187
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-, et al.
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Corpus Stylistics : Theory and Practice
- 2019
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of corpora in stylistics has increased substantially in recent years but until now there has been no book detailing the theoretical basis and methodological practices of corpus stylistics. This book surveys the field and sets the agenda for this fast-developing area. Focusing on how to use off-the-shelf corpus software, such as AntConc, Wmatrix, and the Brigham Young University (BYU) corpus interface, this step-by-step guide explains the theory and practice of using corpus methods and tools for stylistic analysis. Eight original case studies demonstrate how to use corpus tools to analyse style in a range of texts, from the contemporary to the historical. McIntyre and Walker explain how to develop appropriate research questions for corpus stylistic analysis, construct and annotate corpora, make sense of statistics, and analyse corpus data. In addition, the book provides practical advice on how to manage the transition from quantitative results to qualitative analysis, and explores how theories, models and frameworks from stylistics can be used to enhance the qualitative phase of corpus analysis. Supported by detailed instructions on how to access and use relevant corpus software, this is a user’s guide to doing corpus stylistic analysis. For students and researchers in stylistics new to the use of corpus methods and theories, the book presents a ‘how-to’ guide; for corpus linguists it opens the door to the theories, models and frameworks developed in stylistics that are of value to mainstream corpus linguistics.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Corpus stylistics in the classroom
- 2012
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Ingår i: Current Trends in Pedagogical Stylistics. - London : Bloomsbury Academic. ; , s. 113-125
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-, et al.
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Discourse presentation in Early Modern English writing : A preliminary corpus-based investigation
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1384-6655 .- 1569-9811. ; 16:1, s. 101-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we report on a pilot project investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in Early Modern English prose fiction and news writing. The aim of the project is to determine whether discourse presentation changes diachronically and what the function of the various discourse presentation categories were in the Early Modern period. To study this we have built and annotated a small corpus of Early Modern English writing using the model of speech, writing and thought presentation outlined in Semino & Short (2004). We are thus able to compare our findings against those of Semino and Short for Present Day English writing. The quantitative results of our pilot study and our initial qualitative analyses lead to a number of hypotheses which we suggest are suitable for testing on a larger corpus of data.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-, et al.
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Engaging the public and enriching language education through Babel : The Language Magazine
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Communicating Linguistics. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9780367560119 - 9781003096078 ; , s. 49-59
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Being a public linguist does not have to mean appearing regularly on TV or radio. There are many other ways in which academics can engage the public with their research. Dan McIntyre and Lesley Jeffries did it by starting a magazine. In this chapter, they explain how they went about the process, how they built a brand and found an audience for their work and what benefits they have seen from the work they have done. They also offer some general points about public engagement to be learned from their experiences.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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History of English : A Resource Book for Students
- 2020. - 2
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. This revised second edition of History of English includes: ❑ a comprehensive introduction to the history of English covering the origins of English, the change from Old to Middle English, and the influence of other languages on English; ❑ increased coverage of key issues, such as the standardisation of English; ❑ a wider range of activities, plus answers to exercises; ❑ new readings of well-known authors such as Manfred Krug, Colette Moore, Merja Stenroos and David Crystal; ❑ a timeline of important external events in the history of English. Structured to reflect the chronological development of the English language, History of English describes and explains the changes in the language over a span of 1,500 years, covering all aspects from phonology and grammar, to register and discourse. In doing so, it incorporates examples from a wide variety of texts and provides an interactive and structured textbook that will be essential reading for all students of English language and linguistics.Visa mindre
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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‘If you’re going to do something that’s new and different in an area that hasn’t been looked at much before, you probably need to start with something not too complex’ : An interview with Mick Short
- 2022
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Ingår i: Language and Literature. - London : Sage Publications. - 0963-9470 .- 1461-7293. ; 31:4, s. 469-484
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mick Short is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University, UK. He studied English at the University of Lancaster from 1965, just one year after the university first opened, to 1968. He returned to teach at Lancaster in 1972, retiring in 2012. As an undergraduate he was taught by the early stylistician and poet Anne Cluysenaar,(1) who was instrumental in setting him on track for an academic career in stylistics. In 1979 he, Katie Wales, Ron Carter and others founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Then, in 1992 he became the first editor of Language and Literature. In this interview, he explains how he came to be interested in stylistics, as well as how his academic career began. He discusses what it was like to teach and research stylistics in its early days, the influence of structuralism on stylistics, the beginnings of discourse and pragmatic stylistics and the importance of corpus tools for moving stylistics forwards. He also sets out some concerns about current stylistics and how these concerns might be met in future.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-, et al.
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(Im)politeness in fictional texts
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. ; , s. 759-783
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Integrating multimodal analysis and the stylistics of drama : A multimodal perspective on Ian McKellen's Richard III
- 2008
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Ingår i: Language and Literature. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-9470 .- 1461-7293. ; 17:4, s. 309-334
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traditionally, stylistic analyses of drama have tended to concentrate on the analysis of dramatic texts rather than dramatic performances. This has been on the basis that no two performances of the same text are entirely alike, and that accurate critical discussion is therefore impossible unless we can be sure that everyone concerned has seen the particular performance we are analysing (Short, 1981). Nonetheless, some performances of plays incorporate production elements that seem to add substantially to the original play script, and which arguably guide our interpretation of the play. In such cases, a stylistic analysis which ignores these production elements is arguably impoverished and incomplete. There appears, then, to be some tension between being methodologically rigorous and producing a complete stylistic analysis of a play which takes into account production and performance elements. However, in the case of plays which have been filmed this methodological problem can be circumvented, since the film version constitutes a permanent record of a particular production of the play in question. In this article I demonstrate the value of taking into account the multimodal aspects of drama by analysing the soliloquy scene from Ian McKellen's film version of Shakespeare's Richard III. I argue that in order to provide a multimodal analysis of the play that matches a traditional stylistic analysis in terms of level of detail, it is necessary to work from a transcript that incorporates linguistic, paralinguistic and non-linguistic elements of the production. As a result of my analysis, I suggest that the multimodal elements of the production contribute to our interpretation of the play as much as the linguistic elements of the dramatic text.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-, et al.
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Investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in spoken British English : A corpus-based approach
- 2004
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Ingår i: ICAME Journal/International Computer Archive of Modern English. - 0801-5775 .- 1502-5462. ; 28, s. 49-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we describe the Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation (SW&TP) Spoken Corpus. We have constructed this corpus to investigate the ways in which speakers present speech, thought and writing in contemporary spoken British English, with the associated aim of comparing our findings with the patterns revealed by the previous Lancaster corpus-based investigation of SW&TP in written texts. We describe the structure of the corpus and the archives from which its composite texts are taken. These are the spoken section of the British National Corpus, and archives currently housed in the Centre for North West Regional Studies (CNWRS) at Lancaster University. We discuss the decisions that we made concerning the selection of suitable extracts from the archives, the re-transcription that was necessary in order to use the original CNWRS archive texts in our corpus, and the problems associated with the original archived transcripts. Having described the sources of our corpus, we move on to consider issues surrounding the mark-up of our data with TEI-conformant SGML, and the problems associated with capturing in electronic form the CNWRS archive material. We then explain the tagging format we adopted in annotating our data for Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation and discuss how this was developed from the earlier version used for tagging written texts. We also discuss some preliminary analyses which point towards fruitful future lines of investigation.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Irony and semantic prosody revisited
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027200532 ; , s. 81-99
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Language and style in David Peace’s 1974 : A corpus-informed analysis
- 2013
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Ingår i: Etudes de stylistique anglaise. - : OpenEdition. - 2116-1747 .- 2650-2623. ; :4, s. 133-146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article demonstrates the potential of corpus linguistic methods for supporting and informing qualitative stylistic analysis. Focusing on an analysis of an extract from David Peace’s novel 1974, it is argued that corpus linguistic techniques offer a means of validating qualitative claims as well as providing a relatively objective method for selecting a text sample for qualitative analysis.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Logic, reality and mind style in Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van
- 2005
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Ingår i: Journal of literary semantics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 0341-7638 .- 1613-3838. ; 34:1, s. 21-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Work on mind style (Fowler 1977) has suggested that unusual world views may be indicated in fiction via such elements as deviant grammatical constructions, graphological deviation and the use of certain conceptual metaphors. In this article I suggest that a further way in which a deviant mind style can be indicated is through the abnormal use of inductive logic. I also propose that the sociological notion of paradigms of reality (Harris 1984) may be employed in the analysis of mind style to distinguish between those mind styles which are the result of genuine cognitive impairment and those which are employed simply for tactical reasons.
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- McIntyre, Dan, 1975-
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Point of view in drama : A socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle
- 2004
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Ingår i: Language and Literature. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-9470 .- 1461-7293. ; 13:2, s. 139-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study of point of view in dramatic texts has been largely neglected by stylisticians. This is perhaps due to the fact that point of view is usually considered to be a narratological phenomenon, whereas most contemporary plays do not make use of narratorial mediation. Nevertheless, linguistic indicators of point of view do exist in dramatic texts and are not always the same as those which indicate viewpoint in prose fiction. I argue that studying point of view in drama can assist in the interpretation of dramatic texts, provide valuable insights into characterization and the relationships between characters, and also contribute to a greater understanding of how point of view is conveyed in language and communication in general. I demonstrate this through a socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter’s play Brimstone and Treacle, highlighting some of the viewpoint indicators which appear to be exclusive to dramatic texts.
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