Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides an
introduction to the subject, an overview of the history of the topic, an analysis of the main …

Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. This book builds feeling and
embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach …

Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created through language in literature
as well as in other types of text. To this end, stylisticians use linguistic models, theories and …

Self-confidence has a key characteristics to start any action especially for speaking in L2.
Among all other language skills, speaking is of an exclusive place to have effective …

This book has grown out of my PhD thesis and so the acknowledgements that I made in the
introduction to that are equally pertinent here. First and foremost I owe a great deal to Mick …

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of
methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary …

This article reviews a range of methodological issues in the study of dialogue in popular
drama (film and television). First of all it discusses some of the factors that may until recently …

Written by internationally renowned researchers in stylistics, this volume of twenty chapters
aims to provide a snapshot of current research and innovations in the field of stylistics." …

Point of view in narrative is a focal angle of seeing, hearing, smelling, and sensing the
story's settings, characters, and events. Researchers within the fields of language, linguistics …

'Language in the media'is an ambiguous title. On the one hand, it may refer to all language
use (or discourse) in the domain of the media, while on the other hand, adopting a meta …