The year’s work in stylistics 2023 & 2024

Adam N (2024) More than ‘ignorant bushbaby bullshit’. The racialised metaperspective as mind style in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014). English Text Construction 17(1): 83–105. DOI: 10.1075/etc.00063.ada.

Adami E (2024) Remaking the sense(s) in Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree: a stylistic analysis. In: Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209–231.

Amideo E (2024) Unreliable narratives and social-ecological memory in Kara Walker’s A Subtlety. In: Bortoluzzi M Zurru E (eds) Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy: Discourses of Awareness and Action for the Lifescape. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 112–131.

Bartley L Piergiorgio T (2024) ‘We can fix this. Let’s get you out of trouble, son’: An analysis of the transitivity and appraisal patterns in the Netflix TV show When They See Us. Applied Linguistics, Advance online publication DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae081.

Bednarek M (2023) Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A Corpus-Informed Approach to the Construction of Social Identity in the Media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bednarek M Meek B (2024) ‘Whitefellas got miserable language skills’: Differentiation, scripted speech, and Indigenous discourses. Language in Society 54: 1–26. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404523000994.

Belligon S (2024a) The voices I hear are not, or not only, in my head’: transmission through sounds in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell. Études de Stylistique Anglaise 19. DOI: 10.4000/11rfk.

Belligon S (2024b) The sense of the sense of smell in Virginia Woolf’s Flush. In: Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 73–95.

Benammar S (2024) “SO FUCKING CUTE IM DYING”: The use of hyperbole on X. Études de Stylistique Anglaise 19. DOI: 10.4000/11rfp.

Bort-Mir L (2019) Developing, Applying, and Testing FILMIP. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Spain: University Jaume I. https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/666927#page=1

Bortoluzzi M Zurru E (eds) (2024) Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy: Discourses of Awareness and Action for the Lifescape. London: Bloomsbury.

Boucher A Giovanelli M Harrison C Love R Godfrey C (2024) Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bourdeau M (2024) The narrative mechanics of transmission in Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart (2012): Hostile environments vs. readerly reflexes. Études de Stylistique Anglaise 19. DOI: 10.4000/11rfj.

Brannon K (2023) Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry. London and New York: Routledge.

Bray J (2024) The letter-writing manual and the epistolary novel. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47(1): 15–29. DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12930.

Brookes G Clarke I McEnery T (2024) Representation of religion in news media discourse. In: Pihlaja S Ringrow H (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 180–193.

Burke M (ed.) (2023) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.

Canning P (2023) Forensic stylistics. In: Burke M (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, pp. 521–541.

Carney G Lugea J Fernández-Quintanilla C Devine P (2023) “Sometimers, Alzheimer’s? I love that! That’s definitely me”: Readers’ responses to fictional dementia narratives. The Gerontologist 63(10): 1610–1618. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnad055.

Drewniok M Kuźniak M (eds) (2024) Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics: From Ego to Eco. London: Bloomsbury.

Durgasingh R Selvon-Ramkissoon N (eds) (2024) Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Emmott C Alexander M (2024) ‘You see, but you do not observe’: Sensory manipulation and sense-making in the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. In: Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125–148.

Esposito E Selvon-Ramkissoon N Durgasingh R (2024) Digital discourses on gender-based violence in Trinidad and Tobago. In: Durgasingh R Selvon-Ramkissoon N (eds) Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 287–322.

Federici A (2024) Transitivity and agency in Richard Jefferies’s rural essays: An ecostylistic analysis. Journal of Literary Semantics 53(1): 67–87. DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2004.

Filardo-Llamas L Roldán-García A (2024) From the closet to the stars. Metaphoric construals of gender identity in Tumblr. A case study. In: Romano M (ed.) Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 51–80.

Forceville C (2024a) Identifying and interpreting visual and multimodal metaphor in commercial and feature films. Metaphor and Symbol 39(1): 40–54. DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2023.2271544.

Forceville C (2024b) Identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons. In: Romano M (ed.) Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 255–278.

Gavin P (2024a) Creative writing practice of ekphrastic intervention: A case study of literary responses to A Blind Girl Reading by Ejnar Nielsen. In: Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 259–282.

Gavin P (2024b) Fictional ekphrasis representing childhood trauma in M Atwood’s Cat’s Eye. In: Drewniok M Kuźniak M (eds) Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics: From Ego to Eco. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 171–188.

Gebraad N Forceville C (2024) Facing cancer: Metaphors in medical animation films. Visual Communication, (Online first article). DOI: 10.1177/14703572241229061.

Gibbons A (2023) A cognitive approach to multimodal autobiographical elegy. In: Gibbons A King E (eds) Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 85–110.

Gibbons A King E (eds) (2023) Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

Gillings M (2024) Politics, religion, and drama. Exploring the metapragmatics of hypocrisy. In: Sorlin S Virtanen T (eds) The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 44–73.

Giovanelli M (2023) Stylistics and children’s literature. In: Burke M (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, pp. 542–559.

Giovanelli M Harrison C (2024) Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics: A Practical Guide. 2nd edition. London/New York/Dublin: Bloomsbury.

González C (2023) The permissible author: Cultural politics and the market economy of the literary sphere. In: Gibbons A King E (eds) Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 43–63.

Haines A (2024) Comic timing in prose fiction. Journal of Literary Semantics 53(2): 93–109. DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2007.

Halmari H (2024) Apology as hypocrisy. Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. In: Sorlin S Virtanen T (eds) The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 124–160.

Hamawand Z (2023) English Stylistics: A Cognitive Grammar Approach. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Harrison C (2023) Stylistics and cognitive grammar. In: Burke M (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, pp. 314–329.

Harrison C (2024) The Language of Margaret Atwood. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Haugh M (2024) Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy. In: Sorlin S Virtanen T (eds) The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 162–186.

Ikeo R Shigematsu E Nakao M (2024) A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-Tense Narrative. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

King E (2023) Dead authors tell no tales: The ailing author-character in contemporary novels about novelists. In: Gibbons A King E (eds) Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 199–218.

Kizelbach U (2024) The pragmatics of royal discourse in William Shakespeare’s Henry VI. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25(1): 1–32. DOI: 10.1075/jhp.19012.kiz.

Lugea J Walker B (2023) Stylistics: Text, Cognition and Corpora. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lugea J Fernández-Quintanilla C Carney G Devine P (2024) Is there truth in fiction? Lessons from readers’ responses to dementia fiction. Medical Humanities 5(1): 129–139. DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012976.

Mah-Chamberlain K (2024) Selvon’s stylistics: Self-conscious language production in An Island is a World. In: Durgasingh R Selvon-Ramkissoon N (eds) Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 237–258.

Mathe L (2024) Analysing discourse-stylistics on peripheral journalism platforms: A context of indigenous language news outlets on Facebook. African Journalism Studies 45(2): 94–114. DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2388640.

Montoro R Werner V (2024) Introduction: interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture. English Text Construction 16(2): 109–118. DOI: 10.1075/etc.22028.mon.

Montoro R Zaganor S (2024) Chick lit. Characterisation through laughter-talk in conversational humour. English Text Construction 16(2): 214–237. DOI: 10.1075/etc.00057.mon.

Mooshamer C Dominique B Henrik H Meinhardt K Olina O Christin-Walch M Xia Q (2023) The phonaesthetics of constructed languages: Results from an online rating experiment. In: Noletto I Norledge J and Stockwell P (eds) Reading Fictional Languages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 93–111.

Mueller C (2024) Symbols and icons in Buddhist worship. In: Pihlaja S Ringrow H (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 96–108.

Nakao M (2024) Thackeray-type narrator revisited: Portrayal of characters’ minds as narratorial performance in Vanity Fair. Journal of Literary Semantics 53(1): 19–38.

Neary C (2024) Analysing metaphor in religious discourse in literature. In: Pihlaja S Ringrow H (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 109–121.

Noletto I (2024) Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature: Stylistic Explorations. New York and Abingdon: Routledge.

Noletto I Norledge J Stockwell P (eds) (2023) Reading Fictional Languages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Pager-McClymont K Stradling F (2024) Using think-aloud data to explore pathetic fallacy’s impact on narrative empathy. In: Drewniok M Kuźniak M (eds) Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics: From Ego to Eco. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 69–98.

Panagiotidou M (2024) Body, mind, and nature in Rossetti’s ‘For a Venetian pastoral by Giorgione (In the Louvre)’. In: Drewniok M Kuźniak M (eds) Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics: From Ego to Eco. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 189–206.

Peterssen S Soares da Silva A (2024) Polarising metaphors in far-right populist tweets: A comparative crosslinguistic study. In: Romano M (ed.) Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 107–134.

Pihlaja S (2024) Language, religion, and the digital world. In: Pihlaja S Ringrow H (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 122–133.

Pihlaja S Ringrow H (eds) (2024) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion. Abingdon: Routledge.

Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) (2024) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Price H (2023) A corpus stylistic approach to mental health. In: Burke M (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, pp. 560–576.

Ras I Koning A (2024) The disappearance of ‘poverty’ in Dutch House of Representatives debates on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT). Discourse & Society 36(3): 400–415. DOI: 10.1177/09579265241288586.

Romano M (ed.) (2024) Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Schubert C (2024) Tarantino’s eloquent villains. A pragma-stylistics approach to suspense. English Text Construction 16(2): 119–143. DOI: 10.1075/etc.22022.sch.

Selvon-Ramkissoon N (2024) Critical discourse studies and curriculum development in Trinidad and Tobago: Exploring discursive practices in education policy. In: Durgasingh R Selvon-Ramkissoon N (eds) Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79–106.

Seracini F (2024) Value metaphors in films: A corpus-based analysis of the representation of core values in American movies. L’analisi Linguistica e Letteraria XXXI 31(3): 69–92. https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/603

Sorlin S (2024a) How pragmatically (in)definite are you and one? Pronominal imposture in George Orwell’s Down and out in Paris and London (1933). In: Gill M Malmivirta A Wårvik B (eds) Structures in Discourse. Interaction, Adaptability, and Pragmatic Functions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 36–57.

Sorlin S (2024b) The pragmatics of racism in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American lyric (2014). English Studies 105(6): 926–944. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2024.2348933.

Sorlin S (2024c) Transmission through pronominal displacement in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Tomorrow is too far” (2009). Études de Stylistique Anglaise 19. DOI: 10.4000/11rfi.

Sorlin S (2024d) You as a stylistic vector of otherness: from self-ascription to enactment in Kincaid (1988), Adichie (2009) and Azumah Nelson (2021). Journal of Literary Semantics 53(1): 1–17. DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2001.

Šorm E Steen G (2018) VISMIP: Towards a method for visual metaphor identification. In: Steen G (ed.) Visual Metaphor: Structure and Process. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 47–88.

Stockwell P (2024) Introduction: A new ecology of language. In: Drewniok M Kuźniak M (eds) Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics: From Ego to Eco. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1–12.

Tanskanen S (2024) “Ding ding ding we have a hypocrite!” The metapragmatics of verbal hypocrisy in discussion forum interaction. In: Sorlin S Virtanen T (eds) The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 74–95.

Toolan M (2024) To make you hear, make you feel, make you see: Representing sense-perceptions in narrative fiction. In: Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51–72.

van Peer W Chesnokova A (2024) “The sound must seem an echo to the sense”: Experiencing oral and silent reading of poetry. In: Pillière L Sorlin S (eds) Style and Sense(s). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235–258. DOI: 10.1075/etc.23003.wal.

Virdis D (2024) Biodiversity’ in Extinction Rebellion’s words: An ecostylistic examination of a beneficial text. Cogent Arts & Humanities 11: 1. DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2024.2360799.

Walshe S (2024) Brogues and Blarney: The representation of Irish speech in American comics. English Text Construction 16(2): 238–260. DOI: 10.1075/etc.23003.wal.

Walters K (2024) “The most honourable brogad”: A critical discourse analysis of Jamaica’s prime minister as hero, sex symbol and villain on social media. In: Durgasingh R Selvon-Ramkissoon N (eds) Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 177–212.

Werner V Ledermann A (2024) Styling authenticity in country music. Languages 9(5): 168. DOI: 10.3390/languages9050168.

Whitney A McDermott A Cerdan T Bloomstein S Randall M Bednarek M Meek B (2024) Language use in indigenous-authored television series. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5702.

Wong D (2024) Disaffection and you-narration in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy (1988-2018). Diegesis 13(1): 102–121.

Yu J (2024) Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation: A Descriptive Study of Chinese Translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess, and Pygmalion. London and New York: Routledge.

Zollo S (2024) Positive multimodal analysis of EU learning materials to promote ecoliteracy for young people. In: Bortoluzzi M Zurru E (eds) Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy: Discourses of Awareness and Action for the Lifescape. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 235–256.

Zurru E (2024) Communicating the urgency of the climate emergency through verbal and non-verbal metaphors. In: Bortoluzzi M Zurru E (eds) Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy: Discourses of Awareness and Action for the Lifescape. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 88–111.