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LINGUISTICS
New Labour Keywords
Analyzing Press Discourse
Lesley Jeffries
and Brian Walker
• Analysis of the
ideological shift
in Britain during
the New Labour
era through
corpus-based
study of keywords
• Insight into the
social and cultural impact of New
Labour via systematic analysis of news
• Contributes to the theoretical
understanding of the relationship
between public media and society
LESLEy JEFFRIES is Chair of English Language
at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She was
Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association
(PALA) from 2007-10.
BRIAN WALKER is a Postgraduate Researcher
at Lancaster University, UK, and a Research
Associate at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
UK November 2012 US January 2013
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441162229 - £75.00 / $140.00
PB 9781441125019 - £24.99 / $44.95
Corpus and Discourse
Continuum
Chick Lit
The Stylistics of Cappuccino Fiction
Rocío Montoro
• The first book
length study
of the genre of
chick lit that is
informed by an
advanced stylistic
approach which
covers tradition
and cognitive
angles
• A two-fold work that explores the genre
of chick lit, but at the same time tests
the existing models of linguistic and
cognitive stylistic analysis
ROCíO MONTORO is Lecturer in English Language
at the University of Granada, Spain.
UK April 2012 US June 2012
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781847064790 - £75.00 / $150.00
Advances in Stylistics
Continuum
Oppositions and
Ideology in News
Discourse
Matt Davies
• Considers the
ways in which
news texts align
readers with the
publication where
they appear
• Extends critical
discourse analysis
as a framework
by detailing
linguistic realization of opposites
Investigates how binary oppositions are
constructed discursively and how they are
used in news reports in the British press.
MATT DAVIES is a Senior Lecturer at the
University of Chester, UK.
UK November 2012 January 2013
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441180605 - £75.00 / $140.00
Advances in Stylistics
Continuum
Pedagogical Stylistics
Current Trends in Language,
Literature and ELT
Edited by
Michael Burke,
Szilvia Csabi,
Lara Week and
Judit Zerkowitz
• An exploration
of cutting-edge
international
trends in the
pedagogy of
stylistics, illustrating current theory
and teaching methods with both
empirical data and practical examples
• Features contributions by prominent
academics, including Peter Verdonk and
Peter Stockwell
• Illustrates theoretical teaching methods
with empirical data and practical
examples, using genuine classroom
practices
MICHAEL BURKE is Associate Professor of
Rhetoric, English and Pedagogy at the Roosevelt
Academy, The Netherlands.
SzILVIA CSABI is a postdoctoral researcher at
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
LARA WEEK is a postdoctoral researcher at
Roosevelt Academy, The Netherlands.
JUDIT zERKOWITz is Assistant Professor in the
Department of English Applied Linguistics at
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.
UK March 2012 US May 2012
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441140104 - £75.00 / $140.00
Advances in Stylistics
Continuum
Style in the
Renaissance
Language and Ideology in Early
Modern England
Patricia Canning
• Interdisciplinary
interrogation of
early modern
literature and
culture using
stylistics and
literary criticism
• Historical,
contextual and
stylistic focus on
religious, political and ideological
issues during the Reformation
• Balance between ‘linguistic level of
non-aesthetic discussion’ and ‘the
literary critical level of aesthetic
discussion’
A literary-stylistic reading of early
modern drama and poetry, analysing
representations of religion, politics and
ideology.
PATRICIA CANNING is a Teaching Assistant at the
School of English, queen’s University, Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
UK May 2012 US July 2012
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441185525 - £75.00 / $140.00
Advances in Stylistics
Continuum
I. A. Richards and
the Rise of Cognitive
Stylistics
David West
• Argues that
Richards’ attempt
to understand
literature
and literary
interpretation in
terms of general
psychological
processes is
important today
for both cognitive stylistics and literary
studies in general
• Argues that Richards’ psychological
approach anticipated many of the core
aims, methods and assumptions of
cognitive stylistics
• Seeks to bring into view a sense of
history that cognitive stylistics often
denies itself
DAVID WEST is a Lecturer in English Language,
Linguistics and Literature at the Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany.
UK November 2012 US January 2013
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441110435 - £75.00 / $150.00
Advances in Stylistics
Continuum