Michael Burke (editor) - Pedagogical Stylistics: Current Trends in Language, Literature and ELT (Advances in Stylistics)

Pedagogical Stylistics

Advances in Stylistics

Series Editor: Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield, UK

Editorial Board:

Beatrix Busse, University of Berne, Switzerland

Szilvia Csbi, Etvs Lornd University, Hungary

Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, Germany

Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield, UK

Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK

Peter Verdonk, University of Amsterdom (Emeritus), The Netherlands

Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, UK

Larry Stewart, College of Wooster, USA

Manuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, France

Titles in the Series:

Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse

Matt Davies

I. A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics

David West

Style in the Renaissance

Patricia Canning

Chick Lit

Roco Montoro

Stylistics and Shakespeares Language

Mireille Ravassat

Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice

Yufang Ho

D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint

Violeta Sotirova

Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond

Roberta Piazza

Opposition in Discourse

Lesley Jeffries

Pedagogical Stylistics

Current Trends in Language,
Literature and ELT

Edited by

Michael Burke, Szilvia Csbi, Lara Week

and Judit Zerkowitz

Advances in Stylistics

Bloomsbury Academic

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Michael Burke, Szilvia Csbi, Lara Week, Judit Zerkowitz and
Contributors 2012

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ePub ISBN: 978-1-4411-2312-1

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Pedagogical stylistics: current trends in language, literature and ELT/
edited by Michael Burke[et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4411-4010-4 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4411-2312-1
(ebook epub: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4411-5987-8 (ebook pdf: alk. paper)
1. Language and languagesStudy and teaching. 2. Style, LiteraryStudy and teaching. I. Burke, Michael, 1964 II. Title.

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Contents

Michael Burke, Szilvia Csbi, Lara Week and Judit Zerkowitz

Peter Verdonk

Patricia Canning and Paul Simpson

Peter Stockwell

Olivia Fialho, David Miall and Sonia Zyngier

Michael Burke

Jeremy Scott

Dan McIntyre

Billy Clark and Nicky Owtram

Chantelle Warner

Paola Trimarco

Geoff Hall

Judit Zerkowitz

We are grateful to the publishers Random House for their permission to reproduce the poem Dolour, covering the USA and related rights. We are also greatly indebted to Tony Harrison for his permission to reproduce his poem Marked with D, which appears in Selected Poems and Collected Poems (Penguin 1987 & 2007). While every effort has been made to contact copyright holders, we would be pleased to hear of any that have been omitted. We would also like to show our appreciation to the Advances in Stylistics series editor, Dan McIntyre, for his constructive feedback and excellent guidance during the production of this book. Furthermore, we would also like to thank Gurdeep Mattu at Continuum for commissioning and supporting the project in the first place. We are also grateful to the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) for providing us with a forum where we can regularly exchange views and explore further projects within our special pedagogical stylistics interest group. Finally, we are greatly indebted to our students for their inspiration, motivation and willingness to partake in many of our in-class experiments. Without their readiness to help, it would be nigh impossible for us to develop strategies to improve their learning. They may all be anonymous in this book, but we, their teachers, the authors of these chapters, know exactly who they are. This book is dedicated to them and indeed all our past and current students.

Middelburg and Budapest
August 2011

Michael Burke is associate professor of rhetoric and English at Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg (Utrecht University), where he is also head of department. He is the current chair of the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and is a Routledge Linguistics Series Editor (in rhetoric and stylistics). His publications include Contextualised Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk (ed. with Stockwell and Bex) 2000, Rodopi and Literary Reading Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind . 2011, Routledge. He has published many stylistics and pedagogy-related articles in diverse journals including Language and Literature , Style , The European Journal of English Studies and Foundations of Science .

Patricia Canning teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in linguistics and early modern literature at Queens University, Belfast. Her published work reflects her interdisciplinary approach, which incorporates cognitive stylistics, literary theory and phenomenology. She has contributed to Language and Literature , and has just finished her monograph for Continuums Advances in Stylistics series, Style in the Renaissance: Language and Ideology in Early Modern England . Contributions to Critical Survey and Early Modern Drama and the Politics of Biblical Reading , ed. Adrian Streete (Palgrave Macmillan) are forthcoming. She is currently developing a reading for wellbeing project (Get Into Reading) across Northern Ireland on behalf of The Reader Organisation and runs a project with female prisoners in Hydebank Prison, Belfast.

Billy Clark is senior lecturer in English Language at Middlesex University (http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/Billy_Clark.aspx) His research is focused mainly on linguistic meaning (semantics and pragmatics). His recent work has focused on intonational meaning, pragmatic stylistics and the inferential processes involved in writing. He was section editor and contributor for the section on Foundations of Linguistics in the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics , edited by Keith Brown in 2006. He has worked on a number of committees concerned with links between linguistics and education, including the committee for the United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad (http://www.uklo.org/) and a group working towards the development of an A Level in Linguistics (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/langschool/langschool-top.htm). He is currently preparing a book on Relevance Theory for Cambridge University Press.

Szilvia Csbi received her doctorate in cognitive linguistics at Etvs Lornd University, Budapest, Hungary, where she focused on applying conceptual metaphor, metonymy and blend theory to cultural similarities and differences in conceptualization. Her interests also include textual analyses, especially from a cognitive linguistic point of view. She co-authored two edited volumes and published several articles in these fields. She currently works at the Publisher of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Wolters Kluwer as managing editor of mono- and bilingual dictionaries.