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Stylistics, language variety, literature

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(With D. Davy) Investigating English style (London: Longman, 1969), xiv+260 pp.  0 253 33165 X

(With D. Davy), Advanced conversational English (London: Longman, 1975), 170 pp.  0 582 55074 2; 0 582 56831 5 (tape); 0 582 79005 0 (cassette)

Articles and contributions

New perspectives for language study: I Stylistics, English Language Teaching 24, 1970, 99-106.

Stylistics, fluency, and language teaching.  In Interdisciplinary approaches to language (London: CILT), Occasional Paper 6, 1971, 34-53.  Part reprinted in Kachru & Stahlke.

Objective and subjective in stylistic analysis. In B.B. Kachru & H. Stahlke (eds), Current trends in stylistics (Edmonton: Linguistic Research Inc, 1972). 103-14.  Reprinted in Directions in applied linguistics

Intonation and metrical theory. Transactions of the Philological Society, 1-33. Reprinted in The English Tone of Voice

Style: the varieties of English. In W.F. Bolton (ed), A history of literature in the English language, 10 (London: Sphere), 241-63. 2nd edition, 1987

The diagnosis of sociolinguistic problems in doctor-patient interaction.  In B. Tanner (ed), Language and communication in general practice (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976), 40-51

The language of the age. In K. Jankowsky (ed), Scientific and humanistic dimensions of language, Festschrift for Robert Lado (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1985), 399-408

Literature of the future: language of the past (and present). In I. Lindblad & M. Ljung (eds), Proceedings from the 3rd Nordic Conference for English Studies (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell), 41-52 [another version of 'The language of the age', 1985]

Linguistic strangeness. In Margaret Bridges (ed), On strangeness (Tübingen: Narr), Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 5, 1990, 109-20

Stylistic profiling. In K. Ajmer & B. Altenberg (eds), English corpus linguistics (London: Longman, 1991), 221-38

Refining stylistic discourse categories. In G. Melchers & B. Warren (eds), English linguistics in honour of Magnus Ljung (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994), 35-46

Speaking of writing and writing of speaking. Longman Language Review  1, 1995, 5-8

Language BLANK literature: from conjunction to preposition. In Andrew Foley (ed.), English at the Turn of the Millennium (Proceedings of the 1998 conference of the English Academy of Southern Africa), 9-20; reprinted in English Today, 15, 1999, 13-21

Too few words for the future. The Age, Extra (Melbourne), 14 August 1999, 8. [Original title: Writing about writing about language]

Reviews

Review of A.Q. Morton & J. McLeman, Christianity and the computer, New Blackfriars, 251-2

N. Enkvist, et al., Linguistics and style, Journal of Linguistics  1, 1965, 173-9

Computing St Paul.   2 talks, BBC Third Programme, March.

Review of G. Steiner, Extraterritorial, The Tablet, May

R. Fowler, The languages of literature, Times Higher Education Supplement  9 (10.12.71), 17.

See also: Religious Language; Shakespeare

 

 

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