Mick Short
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mick Short plays a role.
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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
2019 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 | Chapter
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
2017 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 | Chapter
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
2016 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 | Article
Review of Holt & Clift (2007): Reporting talk: Reported speech in interaction Functions of Language 16:2, pp. 309–314
2009 Review
7. Evaluation and stylistic analysis The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, Peer, Willie van (ed.), pp. 117–137
2008 Article