Alison Gibbons - Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, Interpretation

Contemporary Stylistics

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language Advanced

General Editor

Heinz Giegerich, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Edinburgh

Editorial Board

Laurie Bauer (University of Wellington)
Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Willem Hollmann (Lancaster University)
Rochelle Lieber (University of New Hampshire)
Bettelou Los (University of Edinburgh)
Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)
Donka Minkova (UCLA)
Edgar Schneider (University of Regensburg)

TITLES IN THE SERIES INCLUDE:

A Critical Account of English Syntax: Grammar, Meaning, Text

Keith Brown and Jim Miller

English Historical Semantics

Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan

A Historical Syntax of English

Bettelou Los

Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English

Jan Don

Construction Grammar and its Application to English

Martin Hilpert

A Historical Phonology of English

Donka Minkova

English Historical Pragmatics

Andreas Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

English Historical Sociolinguistics

Robert McColl Millar

Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English

Hans Lindquist

Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, Interpretation

Alison Gibbons and Sara Whiteley

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Contemporary Stylistics

Language, Cognition, Interpretation

Alison Gibbons and Sara Whiteley

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Alison Gibbons and Sara Whiteley, 2018

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The right of Alison Gibbons and Sara Whiteley to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material previously published elsewhere. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publisher will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. All literary works and extracts are included in this book either in accordance with fair use or through grant of permission, as detailed below.

: Foregrounding

Jeffrey McDaniels poem dont touch it! was reproduced from his (2008) collection Endarkenment, University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 34. Permission granted by author.

Permission for e. e. cummings poetry was granted: The Minds(. Copyright 1938, 1966, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from COMPLETE POEMS: 19041962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

: Phonemes to sound patterning

Permission to print McCaffery, S. (2000) Sixteen [originally published in Intimate Distortions (1979)], Seven Pages Missing: Volume One: Selected Texts 19691999, Coach House Books, p. 138 granted by Steve McCaffery.

The extract from Filippo Tommaso Marinettis Zong Toomb Toomb translated by Elizabeth R. Napier and Barbara R. Studholme comes from Marinetti: Selected Poems and Related Prose, Yale University Press, and is reprinted with permission from Yale Representation Ltd.

Louis MacNeices poem River in Spate from MacNeices Collected Poems, published by Faber & Faber has been published with permission from literary, film, and TV agents David Higham Associates.

: Morphemes to words

Space Sonnet & Polyfilla by Edwin Morgan from his Collected Poems (1990 [1977]: 341) is reprinted with permission from Carcanet Press.

: Phrase to sentence

Matthea Harvey gave permission for the reprinting of her poem In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden, originally published in her (2000) collection Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, published by Alice James Books.

: Varieties and invented languages

Permission to reproduce Received Pronunciation was granted by the author Sally Goldsmith. The poem appears in: A. Lehoczky, A. Piette, A. Sansom and P. Sansom (eds) (2012) The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined, Sheffield: Smith/Doorstop, pp. 934.

Permission to reproduce quotations from Dialectable greetings cards was granted by Julia Harrison of Dialectable Ltd.

: Figure and ground

Permission to reproduce The House Is Not the Same since You Left was granted by the author Henry Normal. The poem appears in: Normal, H. (1993) Nude Modelling for the Afterlife, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, p. 21.

: Cognitive grammar and construal

Charles Causleys I Am The Song is reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. The poem is from Collected Poems 19512000, published by Picador (2000).

: Text-worlds

Permission to reproduce Hypothetical was granted by the author Maria Taylor. The poem appears in S. Hannah (ed.) (2014) The Poetry of Sex, London: Viking, pp. 456.

: Negation and lacuna

Faber & Faber granted permission for the reprint of Julia Copus poem This Is the Poem in which I Have Not Left You, originally published in Copus (2012) collection The Worlds Two Smallest Humans.

: Analysing the multimodal text

Permission to use extracted words from 13, rue Thrse (2011) as well as reproduce the image of page 5 in was granted by Hill Nadell Agency and the author Elena Shapiro: Copyright 2011, Elena Mauli Shapiro. Used by permission of the author.

Ilona Chavasse, Rights Director of Oneworld Publications, granted permission to reproduce pages 1 and 25 from Illuminae: The Illuminae Files_01, on behalf of the authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, Copyright 2015; Published by Rock the Boat, an imprint of Oneworld Publications.

Blast Theory granted permission for the use of the three screenshots from Karen, shown in .

It has taken us quite a long time to write this book; too long, because so many things have happened along the way new houses, new jobs basically, life happened! And because the book has taken so long, we have accrued many debts.

First and foremost, the team at Edinburgh University Press have been supportive and patient throughout. Thank you to our original commissioning editor, Gillian Leslie, and the editorial team Jenny Peebles, Richard Strachan and to Laura Williamson for her ongoing commitment and enthusiasm for the book as we prepared to submit it.

In writing this book, we were committed to analysing (and therefore sharing with our readers) poems and fiction that we enjoy. Since many of these works are contemporary, we have on several occasions had to obtain permissions. Thanks to the English Research Committee at De Montfort University and to the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University for helping to cover some of the permissions costs; thanks also to the authors who gave permission freely and whose work has inspired our analyses.