Katie Wales
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katie Wales plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 2. The role of analogy in Charles Dickens’ Pictures from Italy The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, Douthwaite, John, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru (eds.), pp. 21–30 | Chapter
Pictures from Italy (1846) is one of Charles Dickens’ lesser known works. There has been very little critical interest in this travelogue, and no linguistic analysis. In this chapter, I focus on the significant role of analogy in this text: broadly covering similes (like, as); quasi-similes (as… read more
2015 Chapter 5. ‘Loquor, ergo sum’: ‘I’ and animateness re-considered The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 95–104 | Article
My title echoes Lyons (1982), who was himself much indebted to the work of Benveniste (1966). I shall first critique Benveniste’s ideas about the first person pronoun and le sujet parlant. For my purposes here I want to argue for the primacy of the rhetorical situation of discourse, rather than the… read more
2010 Northern English in Writing Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 61–80 | Article
Northern English is an important variety of British English, which has tended to be neglected in textbooks on the history of English. The chapter describes Northern English from the Early Modern period (1500–1900), based on evidence from a wide range of vernacular texts and styles. The first… read more
1995 Your Average Generalisations: A Case-Study in Historical Pragmatics Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 309 ff. | Article
1989 Martyn F. Wakelin - 1935-1988 English World-Wide 10:1, pp. 119–121 | Miscellaneous