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Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment
Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 37] 2021
► pp. 1–16

Chapter 1
Introduction

| University of Cagliari
| University of Genoa
| University College Roosevelt

 

Keywords:  
Article outline
  • 1.The spatial turn and its relevance for stylistics
  • 2.Defining landscape, place and environment
  • 3.Roadmap
  • References
Published online: 15 April 2021
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