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Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language
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This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his analyses of the rhetorical composition of everyday English usage, and his published outputs embrace the stylistic, rhetorical, compositional and creative topographies of both language and literature. The contributions that comprise this volume are all by well-known scholars in the field and each essay celebrates Nash’s prodigious offering by covering the academic fields with which he was particularly associated. These fields include composition, rhetoric, discourse analysis, English usage, comic discourse, creative writing and the stylistic exploration of literature from the Old English period to that of the present day.
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Introduction
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Paul Simpson
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Paul
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Liverpool University
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Ronald Carter
Carter, Ronald
Ronald
Carter
Nottingham University
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An indicative list of publications by Walter Nash
An
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Chapter 1. “Warmth of thought” in Walter Nash’s prose and verse
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A01
Susan Cockcroft
Cockcroft, Susan
Susan
Cockcroft
Nottingham University
2
A01
Robert Cockcroft
Cockcroft, Robert
Robert
Cockcroft
Nottingham University
20
calor cogitationis
20
confessional
20
Quintilian
20
religious texts
20
rhetoric
20
secular writing
20
warmth (of thought)
01
This chapter explores the means through which Walter Nash engages
readers of his prose and verse, centring on the concept of “warmth of
thought”, which derives from Quintilian. Discussion of the poetry stresses
the significance of the word “heart”, especially in personal and religious
contexts – and in translation of Horace as representative of the secular
tradition. It shows how the resources of verse are adapted by Nash as a
poet, at once confessional and broadly empathetic, and how he explores the
uses and resources of prose, in a whole range of genres, as seen in his
publications beginning with <i>Designs in Prose.</i> Throughout,
“warmth of thought” is a dominant characteristic as he enlightens,
encourages and entertains both readers and prospective writers.
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Chapter 2. Chrysanthemums for Bill
On Lawrentian style and stylistics
1
A01
Peter Stockwell
Stockwell, Peter
Peter
Stockwell
Nottingham University
20
attractor
20
critical theory
20
D."H. Lawrence
20
resonance
20
subliminal effects
20
texture
20
viewpoint
01
This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a
key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both
specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The
chapter addresses those criticisms, differentiating those that are misplaced
from those that might have had a reasonable basis. It claims that many of
these older objections can be addressed by more recent innovations in the
discipline, and in fact that Nash prefigured some later literary
linguistics, though he lacked the tools to develop his solutions at the
time. In this analysis, these innovations are drawn from the broadening of
stylistics to encompass matters that would previously have been regarded as
extra-linguistic, in the form of a cognitive poetics.
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Chapter 3. The doubling of design in Walter Nash’s <i>Rhetoric</i>
<i>The Wit of Persuasion</i>
1
A01
David E. Stacey
Stacey, David E.
David E.
Stacey
Humboldt State University
20
CNN
20
disposition (in rhetoric analysis)
20
'mythogram'
20
persuasion
20
political speech
20
rhetorical
20
taxis
01
This chapter takes as its point of departure a simple diagram
which appears at the beginning of Walter Nash’s (1989)<x> </x>
<i>Rhetoric: The Wit of
Persuasion</i>. As argued, this diagram offers a key to
understanding Nash’s unique conception of classical, renaissance and modern
rhetoric. Focusing upon the rhetorical canon of
<i>taxis/disposition</i>, or arrangement, the chapter explores
how Nash celebrates the skill of writers of canonical literary texts, and of
canny speakers in everyday situations, to design powerful schemes of
persuasion. It is suggested that listeners and readers appreciate the aesthetic
realization of language designed to persuade. The author observes how Nash’s
approach is to encourage receivers of language actively to take power in
rhetorical situations by parodying and rewriting, in order to critically
understand and creatively revise these schemes of persuasion. These
observations are complemented by an analysis of a press conference held by US President Donald Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer.
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Chapter 4. Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W. H. Auden’s “The
Wanderer”
1
A01
Peter Verdonk
Verdonk, Peter
Peter
Verdonk
†
University of Amsterdam
20
"Exeter Book"
20
"Wanderer, The"
20
Anglo-Saxon poetry
20
Auden, W. H.
20
kenning
20
riddles
01
This chapter focuses on rhetorical and stylistic patterns in
W. H. Auden’s “The Wanderer” (1966). After a preliminary stylistic analysis of the poem’s
sound, grammar and vocabulary, the author shifts to consider aspects of the
wider discoursal context in which Auden’s poem is framed. This enlarging of
the poem’s context is assisted through the incorporation of relevant
particulars from Auden’s biography, from around the time the poet was
writing “The Wanderer”. It is pointed out how Auden himself talked of his
fascination with Anglo-Saxon poetry, with its metrical and rhetorical
devices. The chapter also explores the ways in which a stronger
interpretation of the poem can be reached by positioning the poem’s language
against the phonological and rhetorical arrangements of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Particular attention is paid both to the rhetorical device of
<i>kenning</i> and to the stylistic and rhetorical composition
of riddles in the Exeter Book. The chapter concludes that a rounder and more
productive reading of Auden’s “The Wanderer” can be reached when it is
informed by knowledge of the rhetorical and stylistic features of its
literary precursor.
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Chapter 5. “My Shakespeare, rise”
Ben Jonson’s pronominal choices in “To the Memory of My Beloved, the
Author” (1623)
1
A01
Clara Calvo
Calvo, Clara
Clara
Calvo
University of Murcia
20
"To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author"
20
eulogy
20
First Folio
20
Jonson, Ben
20
pronominal choice
20
pronominal density
20
pronouns
20
rhetorical structure
01
This chapter focuses on the book <i>Mr. William Shakespeare’s
Comedies, Histories and Tragedies</i> (1623), which is widely known
today as the First Folio. When the First Folio was printed in 1623, the
editors and printers included in its preliminary matter several poems in
praise of Shakespeare. Among these were two by the author’s friend and
rival, Ben Jonson. One of the poems, “To the Memory of My Beloved, the
Author”, displays an unusual pronominal density and contains some intriguing
pronominal choices. This chapter examines the rhetorical fabric of Jonson’s
eulogy for Shakespeare and dissects the critical and ideological
implications of its peculiar use of the pronominal system. It focuses in
particular on the use of first person possessive pronouns such as “my” and
“ours” in relation to Jonson’s personal agenda: his self-fashioning as
literary critic and his support, as Poet Laureate in all but name, for King
James’s vision of a united Britain.
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Chapter 6. Discourse presentation and point of view in “Cheating at Canasta” by
William Trevor
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Mick Short
Short, Mick
Mick
Short
University of Lancaster
20
focaliser
20
politeness
20
speech presentation
20
text worlds
20
thought presentation
20
turn taking
01
This chapter examines the closing section of William Trevor’s
short story, “Cheating at Canasta”
(2007). Focussing on shifts in narrative viewpoint in the
passage, the chapter teases out the complex transitions in viewpoint
features, showing how Mallory, the story’s focaliser, engages in changing
perceptions of, and reactions to, his immediate environment. Viewpoint
transitions at the level of narrative style, it is argued, engender parallel
shifts in the character’s changing cognitive purview, including memory,
response and flashback as well as his internal assumptions and hypotheses. The
author shows how a subtle understanding of the passage (and indeed the story
as a whole) can enable an appreciation of the quality of the writing,
concluding that stylistic analyses help to show not just how we
<i>understand</i> literary texts but also why and how we
<i>appreciate</i> them.
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Chapter 7. Doing and teaching
From <i>Kettle of Roses</i> to <i>Language and Creative
Illusion</i> and back again
1
A01
Michael Toolan
Toolan, Michael
Michael
Toolan
University of Birmingham
20
creativity
20
heightened engagement
20
illusion
20
narrative closure
01
This chapter explores the continuity between Bill Nash’s academic
work on style and stylistics and his fiction writing. In both forms, Nash
aimed to instruct and entertain, and saw that to achieve those ends one had
to be seriously playful and use a creative imagination. The chapter focusses
specifically on the stylistic means by which Nash closes his short novel,
<i>Kettle of Roses</i>, a novel that takes the form of
eighteen expansive letters from Edna Pugh to a childhood friend, reporting
the recent developments in Edna’s life. There seems no decisive basis in
plot or logic for the letters to leave off where they do, so arguably Nash
is faced with a problem: how to bring the novel to a satisfying close. The
author shows how stylistic analysis of a paragraph in the final letter
highlights the presence of many of the features he has called High Emotional
Involvement (HEI) narration, a style of narration that creates a more
intense engagement, emotionally and ethically, in the story situation than
is encountered elsewhere in the narrative. The author has found HEI
narration used near the close of many modern short stories, where it seems
to be used in part to make the imminent ending satisfying and acceptable to
the reader. It serves a similar function in <i>Kettle of
Roses</i>.
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Chapter 8. Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy
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Michael Stubbs
Stubbs, Michael
Michael
Stubbs
University of Trier
20
caricature
20
fictional worlds
20
French intellectuals
20
intertextual references
20
ordinary versus professional readers
20
parody
20
satire
20
semiotics
01
This chapter discusses a satirical novel: <i>La septième
fonction du langage</i> by Laurent Binet, published in 2015. The
book is a thriller with a deliberately absurd plot about a search for a lost manuscript which holds the secret of ultimate rhetorical power: the ability to convince anyone to
do anything. Although the characters in the novel include some “real
people”, such as two former Presidents of France, Stubbs argues that
Binet’s characters in general embody an extreme mix of factual and fictional
characteristics, and the merciless satire expressed in their mixed
ontological status has left many ordinary readers and professional critics
uncertain how to evaluate the novel. Stubbs employs various models of
analysis, including John Searle’s observations on the logical status of
fictional discourse, and contends that, while useful, this approach does not
explain in full how readers distinguish fact from fiction, nor indeed how
far writers can appropriately go with outrageous caricatures of living
persons. In sum, the chapter shows how the novel provides textual problems
which have not been solved by either literary scholars or language
philosophers.
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Chapter 9. Common Language
Corpus, creativity and cognition*
1
A01
Ronald Carter
Carter, Ronald
Ronald
Carter
Nottingham University
20
creativity
20
linguistic and literary theory
20
literariness
20
literary language
20
pleasure
20
spoken discourse
20
verbal play
01
This chapter takes further debates concerning the nature of
literary language and the presence of literariness in a range of discourses
by exploring the extent to which everyday conversational discourse displays
literary properties. The author argues that studies of literary discourse,
and of the continuities between literary and non-literary discourse, have
tended to focus on written language or on representations of spoken
discourse in fictional or dramatic dialogues. This emphasis has made for
questionable connections between literature, literacy and the written
language because it assumes that spoken language is no more than a less
patterned version of written language. Using the Cambridge and Nottingham
Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE), the author shows how verbal
inventiveness is pervasive in ordinary talk. The chapter concludes that
common, everyday language is far from being either everyday or
common – on the contrary, it is pervasively “poetic”.
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Chapter 10. “Americans don’t do Irony”
Cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony
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A01
Paul Simpson
Simpson, Paul
Paul
Simpson
Liverpool University
20
'folk' linguistics
20
humorous language
20
ironic situations
20
irony
20
non-ironic situations
20
quantification
20
situational irony
01
This chapter probes the common (and perhaps controversial)
perception of many in the UK and Ireland that people from North America
“don’t do” irony. Stimulated by the type of discussion found in Nash’s <i>The Language of
Humour</i> (1985), the author interrogates this folk
belief by developing a quantitative methodology to capture the ways in which
ironic situations are interpreted by people from diverse national
backgrounds. This methodology comprises an anonymous online experiment which
gathers reactions to six narrative scenarios from over 300 informants
world-wide. Each informant is required to provide a one-word response to
each scenario after which they may offer an optional, longer free-text
commentary on the same story. In the course of the chapter, the author
advances a theoretical model of situational irony, while the results
elicited from the survey shed some light on what people from different parts
of the world understand as an <i>ironic</i> situation.
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This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his analyses of the rhetorical composition of everyday English usage, and his published outputs embrace the stylistic, rhetorical, compositional and creative topographies of both language and literature. The contributions that comprise this volume are all by well-known scholars in the field and each essay celebrates Nash’s prodigious offering by covering the academic fields with which he was particularly associated. These fields include composition, rhetoric, discourse analysis, English usage, comic discourse, creative writing and the stylistic exploration of literature from the Old English period to that of the present day.
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Introduction
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Paul Simpson
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Liverpool University
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Ronald Carter
Carter, Ronald
Ronald
Carter
Nottingham University
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An indicative list of publications by Walter Nash
An
indicative list of publications by Walter Nash
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Chapter 1. “Warmth of thought” in Walter Nash’s prose and verse
1
A01
Susan Cockcroft
Cockcroft, Susan
Susan
Cockcroft
Nottingham University
2
A01
Robert Cockcroft
Cockcroft, Robert
Robert
Cockcroft
Nottingham University
20
calor cogitationis
20
confessional
20
Quintilian
20
religious texts
20
rhetoric
20
secular writing
20
warmth (of thought)
01
This chapter explores the means through which Walter Nash engages
readers of his prose and verse, centring on the concept of “warmth of
thought”, which derives from Quintilian. Discussion of the poetry stresses
the significance of the word “heart”, especially in personal and religious
contexts – and in translation of Horace as representative of the secular
tradition. It shows how the resources of verse are adapted by Nash as a
poet, at once confessional and broadly empathetic, and how he explores the
uses and resources of prose, in a whole range of genres, as seen in his
publications beginning with <i>Designs in Prose.</i> Throughout,
“warmth of thought” is a dominant characteristic as he enlightens,
encourages and entertains both readers and prospective writers.
10
01
JB code
lal.34.04sto
37
56
20
Chapter
5
01
Chapter 2. Chrysanthemums for Bill
On Lawrentian style and stylistics
1
A01
Peter Stockwell
Stockwell, Peter
Peter
Stockwell
Nottingham University
20
attractor
20
critical theory
20
D."H. Lawrence
20
resonance
20
subliminal effects
20
texture
20
viewpoint
01
This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a
key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both
specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The
chapter addresses those criticisms, differentiating those that are misplaced
from those that might have had a reasonable basis. It claims that many of
these older objections can be addressed by more recent innovations in the
discipline, and in fact that Nash prefigured some later literary
linguistics, though he lacked the tools to develop his solutions at the
time. In this analysis, these innovations are drawn from the broadening of
stylistics to encompass matters that would previously have been regarded as
extra-linguistic, in the form of a cognitive poetics.
10
01
JB code
lal.34.05sta
57
76
20
Chapter
6
01
Chapter 3. The doubling of design in Walter Nash’s <i>Rhetoric</i>
<i>The Wit of Persuasion</i>
1
A01
David E. Stacey
Stacey, David E.
David E.
Stacey
Humboldt State University
20
CNN
20
disposition (in rhetoric analysis)
20
'mythogram'
20
persuasion
20
political speech
20
rhetorical
20
taxis
01
This chapter takes as its point of departure a simple diagram
which appears at the beginning of Walter Nash’s (1989)<x> </x>
<i>Rhetoric: The Wit of
Persuasion</i>. As argued, this diagram offers a key to
understanding Nash’s unique conception of classical, renaissance and modern
rhetoric. Focusing upon the rhetorical canon of
<i>taxis/disposition</i>, or arrangement, the chapter explores
how Nash celebrates the skill of writers of canonical literary texts, and of
canny speakers in everyday situations, to design powerful schemes of
persuasion. It is suggested that listeners and readers appreciate the aesthetic
realization of language designed to persuade. The author observes how Nash’s
approach is to encourage receivers of language actively to take power in
rhetorical situations by parodying and rewriting, in order to critically
understand and creatively revise these schemes of persuasion. These
observations are complemented by an analysis of a press conference held by US President Donald Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer.
10
01
JB code
lal.34.06ver
77
84
8
Chapter
7
01
Chapter 4. Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W. H. Auden’s “The
Wanderer”
1
A01
Peter Verdonk
Verdonk, Peter
Peter
Verdonk
†
University of Amsterdam
20
"Exeter Book"
20
"Wanderer, The"
20
Anglo-Saxon poetry
20
Auden, W. H.
20
kenning
20
riddles
01
This chapter focuses on rhetorical and stylistic patterns in
W. H. Auden’s “The Wanderer” (1966). After a preliminary stylistic analysis of the poem’s
sound, grammar and vocabulary, the author shifts to consider aspects of the
wider discoursal context in which Auden’s poem is framed. This enlarging of
the poem’s context is assisted through the incorporation of relevant
particulars from Auden’s biography, from around the time the poet was
writing “The Wanderer”. It is pointed out how Auden himself talked of his
fascination with Anglo-Saxon poetry, with its metrical and rhetorical
devices. The chapter also explores the ways in which a stronger
interpretation of the poem can be reached by positioning the poem’s language
against the phonological and rhetorical arrangements of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Particular attention is paid both to the rhetorical device of
<i>kenning</i> and to the stylistic and rhetorical composition
of riddles in the Exeter Book. The chapter concludes that a rounder and more
productive reading of Auden’s “The Wanderer” can be reached when it is
informed by knowledge of the rhetorical and stylistic features of its
literary precursor.
10
01
JB code
lal.34.07cal
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100
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Chapter
8
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Chapter 5. “My Shakespeare, rise”
Ben Jonson’s pronominal choices in “To the Memory of My Beloved, the
Author” (1623)
1
A01
Clara Calvo
Calvo, Clara
Clara
Calvo
University of Murcia
20
"To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author"
20
eulogy
20
First Folio
20
Jonson, Ben
20
pronominal choice
20
pronominal density
20
pronouns
20
rhetorical structure
01
This chapter focuses on the book <i>Mr. William Shakespeare’s
Comedies, Histories and Tragedies</i> (1623), which is widely known
today as the First Folio. When the First Folio was printed in 1623, the
editors and printers included in its preliminary matter several poems in
praise of Shakespeare. Among these were two by the author’s friend and
rival, Ben Jonson. One of the poems, “To the Memory of My Beloved, the
Author”, displays an unusual pronominal density and contains some intriguing
pronominal choices. This chapter examines the rhetorical fabric of Jonson’s
eulogy for Shakespeare and dissects the critical and ideological
implications of its peculiar use of the pronominal system. It focuses in
particular on the use of first person possessive pronouns such as “my” and
“ours” in relation to Jonson’s personal agenda: his self-fashioning as
literary critic and his support, as Poet Laureate in all but name, for King
James’s vision of a united Britain.
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William Trevor
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Mick Short
Short, Mick
Mick
Short
University of Lancaster
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focaliser
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politeness
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speech presentation
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text worlds
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thought presentation
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turn taking
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This chapter examines the closing section of William Trevor’s
short story, “Cheating at Canasta”
(2007). Focussing on shifts in narrative viewpoint in the
passage, the chapter teases out the complex transitions in viewpoint
features, showing how Mallory, the story’s focaliser, engages in changing
perceptions of, and reactions to, his immediate environment. Viewpoint
transitions at the level of narrative style, it is argued, engender parallel
shifts in the character’s changing cognitive purview, including memory,
response and flashback as well as his internal assumptions and hypotheses. The
author shows how a subtle understanding of the passage (and indeed the story
as a whole) can enable an appreciation of the quality of the writing,
concluding that stylistic analyses help to show not just how we
<i>understand</i> literary texts but also why and how we
<i>appreciate</i> them.
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Chapter 7. Doing and teaching
From <i>Kettle of Roses</i> to <i>Language and Creative
Illusion</i> and back again
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Michael Toolan
Toolan, Michael
Michael
Toolan
University of Birmingham
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creativity
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heightened engagement
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illusion
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narrative closure
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This chapter explores the continuity between Bill Nash’s academic
work on style and stylistics and his fiction writing. In both forms, Nash
aimed to instruct and entertain, and saw that to achieve those ends one had
to be seriously playful and use a creative imagination. The chapter focusses
specifically on the stylistic means by which Nash closes his short novel,
<i>Kettle of Roses</i>, a novel that takes the form of
eighteen expansive letters from Edna Pugh to a childhood friend, reporting
the recent developments in Edna’s life. There seems no decisive basis in
plot or logic for the letters to leave off where they do, so arguably Nash
is faced with a problem: how to bring the novel to a satisfying close. The
author shows how stylistic analysis of a paragraph in the final letter
highlights the presence of many of the features he has called High Emotional
Involvement (HEI) narration, a style of narration that creates a more
intense engagement, emotionally and ethically, in the story situation than
is encountered elsewhere in the narrative. The author has found HEI
narration used near the close of many modern short stories, where it seems
to be used in part to make the imminent ending satisfying and acceptable to
the reader. It serves a similar function in <i>Kettle of
Roses</i>.
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Chapter 8. Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy
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Stubbs, Michael
Michael
Stubbs
University of Trier
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caricature
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fictional worlds
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French intellectuals
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intertextual references
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ordinary versus professional readers
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parody
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satire
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semiotics
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This chapter discusses a satirical novel: <i>La septième
fonction du langage</i> by Laurent Binet, published in 2015. The
book is a thriller with a deliberately absurd plot about a search for a lost manuscript which holds the secret of ultimate rhetorical power: the ability to convince anyone to
do anything. Although the characters in the novel include some “real
people”, such as two former Presidents of France, Stubbs argues that
Binet’s characters in general embody an extreme mix of factual and fictional
characteristics, and the merciless satire expressed in their mixed
ontological status has left many ordinary readers and professional critics
uncertain how to evaluate the novel. Stubbs employs various models of
analysis, including John Searle’s observations on the logical status of
fictional discourse, and contends that, while useful, this approach does not
explain in full how readers distinguish fact from fiction, nor indeed how
far writers can appropriately go with outrageous caricatures of living
persons. In sum, the chapter shows how the novel provides textual problems
which have not been solved by either literary scholars or language
philosophers.
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Chapter 9. Common Language
Corpus, creativity and cognition*
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Ronald Carter
Carter, Ronald
Ronald
Carter
Nottingham University
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creativity
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linguistic and literary theory
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literariness
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literary language
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pleasure
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spoken discourse
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verbal play
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This chapter takes further debates concerning the nature of
literary language and the presence of literariness in a range of discourses
by exploring the extent to which everyday conversational discourse displays
literary properties. The author argues that studies of literary discourse,
and of the continuities between literary and non-literary discourse, have
tended to focus on written language or on representations of spoken
discourse in fictional or dramatic dialogues. This emphasis has made for
questionable connections between literature, literacy and the written
language because it assumes that spoken language is no more than a less
patterned version of written language. Using the Cambridge and Nottingham
Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE), the author shows how verbal
inventiveness is pervasive in ordinary talk. The chapter concludes that
common, everyday language is far from being either everyday or
common – on the contrary, it is pervasively “poetic”.
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Chapter 10. “Americans don’t do Irony”
Cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony
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Simpson, Paul
Paul
Simpson
Liverpool University
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'folk' linguistics
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humorous language
20
ironic situations
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irony
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non-ironic situations
20
quantification
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situational irony
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This chapter probes the common (and perhaps controversial)
perception of many in the UK and Ireland that people from North America
“don’t do” irony. Stimulated by the type of discussion found in Nash’s <i>The Language of
Humour</i> (1985), the author interrogates this folk
belief by developing a quantitative methodology to capture the ways in which
ironic situations are interpreted by people from diverse national
backgrounds. This methodology comprises an anonymous online experiment which
gathers reactions to six narrative scenarios from over 300 informants
world-wide. Each informant is required to provide a one-word response to
each scenario after which they may offer an optional, longer free-text
commentary on the same story. In the course of the chapter, the author
advances a theoretical model of situational irony, while the results
elicited from the survey shed some light on what people from different parts
of the world understand as an <i>ironic</i> situation.
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