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Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses

Nurit Levy

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 72] 2016. xvii, 333 pp.

A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves

Giuseppina Balossi

This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 18] 2014. xxi, 277 pp.

Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present

Edited by Roger D. Sell

The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp.