Preface

Michael Burke

1. Introduction: Language, Text & Context Revisited.

Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard

2. Covert Progression, Language and Context.

Dan Shen

3. La La Land: Counterfactuality, Disnarration and the Forked (Motorway) Path.

Marina Lambrou

4. Scribbling Suspense and Surprise.

Matt Evans and Mel Collins

5. Investigating Syntactic Simplicity in Popular Fiction: A Corpus Stylistics Approach.

Rocio Montoro

6. ‘We work hard here’: Exploring Person and Place Deixis in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Letters.

Emma Moreton

7. The Devil has all the Best Tunes: An Investigation of the Lexical Phenomenon of Brexit.

Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre

8. Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations

Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand.

9. ‘Intending to Mean, Pretending to Be’: Reflections on the Limits on Genre.

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

10. Indeterminacy and Interpretation: What is Shown and what is Hidden in Michael Haneke’s Cache.

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.

Catherine Emmott and Marc Alexander

12. Metaphoric Interpretations of a Short Story by J.D. Salinger: A Reader Response Study.

Laura Hidalgo Downing

13. Winnie the Pooh Goes Paralinguistic.

Manuel Jobert

14. Quotation and Overhearing in Austen.

Joe Bray

15. Suppression, Silencing and Failure to Project: Ways of Losing Voice While Using It.

Chris Heffer

16. ‘Hey YouTube’: Positioning the Viewer in Vlogs.

Stephen Pihlaja

17. The Value of Intertextual Associations: How GM Technologies are Given Value Through Association.

Lexie Don

18. Public Women: Power, Gender and Semiotic Representations.

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

19. The Citizen Caught Between Dialogue and Bureaucracy.

Wolfgang Teubert