Stylistics

Lesley Jeffries is Honorary Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. Her recent publications include The Language of Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave, 2022), The Babel Lexicon of Language (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Keywords in the Press (with Walker, Bloomsbury, 2017) and Critical Stylistics (Palgrave, 2010). She co-founded the popular language magazine Babel and is Chair of the University Council for General and Applied Linguistics (UCGAL) in the UK. Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University, Sweden. His recent publications include Communicating Linguistics (Routledge, 2023), The Babel Lexicon of Language (Cambridge University Press, 2022), History of English, 2e (Routledge, 2020) and Corpus Stylistics (EUP, 2019). He co-founded the popular language magazine Babel and is an elected member of the Royal Society of Humanities at Uppsala.

• 1. Language and style; 2. Text and style; 3. Discourse and context I: function; 4. Discourse and context II: interaction; 5. Text and cognition I: text comprehension; 6. Text and cognition II: text processing; 7. Methods and issues in stylistic analysis; 8. Conclusions and future directions.