What are the dominant theories and models for the reading of literature? What gaps or
problems exist for our knowledge, especially with regard to second or foreign language …

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 …

Reading fiction for pleasure is robustly correlated with improved cognitive attainment and
other benefits. It is also in decline among young people in developed nations, in part …

This chapter marks the distinction between language in dystopia and the language of
dystopia. It analyses the accessibility of dystopian worlds, explores the projection of …

The Language of Surrealism explores the revolutionary experiments in language and mind
undertaken by the surrealists across Europe between the wars. Highly influential on the …

Stylistics is the study of linguistic patterns in texts. Put simply, it is the exploration and
consideration of the relationship between linguistic choice and literary interpretation. With its …

Told through a series of interrelated documents (including emails, text messages,
newspaper clip**s and blog posts), Annabel Smith's interactive digital novel The Ark …

Drawing on concepts from narratology and stylistics, this article examines narrativity and
creativity in an interactive oral storytelling context where the teller engages the audience …

Analyses of the worldviews presented by texts have identified grammatical patterns in terms
of the transitivity system outlined in systemic-functional grammar (Halliday, 1994; Halliday …

This thesis offers a text-worlds-approach to the study of linguistic identity in discursive
interaction. It focuses on how settled Chinese migrants in Sheffield, who migrated …