Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows
what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their …

An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary
linguistics and helps students in analysing written texts. How can you tell good writing-the …

Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such
as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem …

Increasingly, discourse makes and sustains the worlds we live in. Critical discourse analysis
(CDA) is one form of a justifiably reflective and suspicious inspection of how discourses …

This article reviews some of the constraints and implications involved in the reporting of
speech in fiction and elsewhere, paying particular attention to some of the issues that attend …

Narrative Progression in the Short Story. A corpus stylistic approach Page 1 Narrative
Progression in the Short Story A corpus stylistic approach Lin gu istic A p p ro ach es to Literatu …

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial
things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study …

First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of
contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic generated a surge of critically ill patients greater than
the capacity of the UK National Health Service (NHS). There have been multiple well …

To reduce harm to the environment resulting from the production, use, and disposal of health
technologies, there are different options for how health technology assessment (HTA) …