Mick Short

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mick Short plays a role.

Journal

Scientific Study of Literature (SSOL)

Edited by David I. Hanauer

ISSN 2210-4372 | E-ISSN 2210-4380

Book series

Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL)

Edited by Sonia Zyngier and Joanna Gavins

ISSN 1569-3112

Articles (5) | Order by:

Short, Mick 2019 Chapter 6. Discourse presentation and point of view in “Cheating at Canasta” by William Trevor Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 101–112 | Chapter

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… read more

Short, Mick 2017 Chapter 3. Listing and impressionism in Charles Dickens’s description of Genoa in Pictures from Italy The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, Douthwaite, John, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru (eds.), pp. 31–44 | Chapter

This chapter examines a subset of representative list constructions in Dickens’s description of Genoa. Such constructions comprise nearly 20% of the text and those examined in detail are varied in type, long, complex and contain significant deviations from the norm. This linguistic complexity is… read more

Short, Mick 2016 Chapter 10. Stylistics and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W.B. Yeats Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 195–212 | Article

This chapter will provide a detailed stylistic analysis of ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by W. B. Yeats. The analysis will combine of a range of analytical methods, most of which will be of the ‘good old steam stylistics’ variety, as Ron Carter has called them, e.g. lexical, grammatical and… read more

Short, Mick 2009 Review of Holt & Clift (2007): Reporting talk: Reported speech in interaction Functions of Language 16:2, pp. 309–314 | Review

Short, Mick and Elena Semino 2008 7. Evaluation and stylistic analysis The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, Peer, Willie van (ed.), pp. 117–137 | Article