Michael Toolan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Toolan plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1569-3112
Title
Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A corpus stylistic approach
Michael Toolan
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 6] 2009. xi, 212 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019. Chapter 7. Doing and teaching: From Kettle of Roses to Language and Creative
Illusion and back again. Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 113–126
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… read more | Chapter
2015. Review of Evans (2014): The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct... Language and Dialogue 5:3, pp. 471–484
Review
2011. Chapter 9. “I don’t know what they’re saying half the time, but I’m hooked on the series”: Incomprehensible dialogue and integrated multimodal characterisation in The Wire. Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 161–183
This paper analyses and discusses dialogue in the hugely-celebrated HBO series, The Wire (2002–2008). One paradox that particularly interests me is that the dialogue is “involvingly incomprehensible” or, to be more precise, that it is quite difficult to understand fully, but no less absorbing and… read more | Article
2009. Trust and text, text as trust. Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 105–122
Article
2007. Are Brummies developing narrative of European identity?. The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 79–94
Article
2007. Trust and text, text as trust. Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 269–288
In this essay I celebrate and interrogate John Sinclair’s seminal paper, ‘Trust the text’, a paper in which several radically new ideas about the role of prospection and encapsulation in the reader’s processing of text are outlined. I mention some of the ways in which trust is fundamental to… read more | Article