Acknowledgements

Elsevier, for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “Review: George L. Dillon, Rhetoric as social imagination” (from Journal of Pragmatics 12 (1988): 117–123); Roger D. Sell, “Review: Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style; David Birch and Michael O’Toole (eds), Functions of style; and Alan Swingewood, Sociological poetics and aesthetic theory” (from Journal of Pragmatics 15 (1991): 588–599); Roger D. Sell, “Review: John Stephens and Ruth Waterhouse, Literature, language and change: From Chaucer to the present” (from Journal of Pragmatics 18 (1992): 395–399); and Roger D. Sell, “Review: Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction” (from Journal of Pragmatics 24 (1995): 557–572).

The English Association (www​.le​.ac​.uk​/engassoc), for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “English departments in British higher education: A view from abroad” (from English economis’d: English and British higher education in the eighties, ed. Martin Dodsworth for the English Association (London: John Murray, 1989), 89–100).

The John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, for permision to reprint Roger D. Sell, “Postdisciplinary philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics” (from English historical linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th international conference on English historical linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, eds Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster, and José Calvo (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994 (https://​benjamins​.com​/catalog​/cilt​.113), 29–36); Roger D. Sell, “A historical but non-determinist pragmatics of literary communication”, from Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2 (2001): (https://​benjamins​.com​/catalog​/jhp), 1–32; and Roger D. Sell, “Reader-learners: Children’s novels and participatory pedagogy” (from Children’s Literature as communication: The ChiLPA project, ed. Roger D. Sell (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2002 (https://​benjamins​.com​/catalog​/sin​.2), 263–290)).

Koninklijke Brill NV, for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “How can literary pragmaticists develop empirical methods? The problem of modal and evaluative expressions in literary texts” (from Empirical studies of literature: Proceedings of The Second IGEL-Conference, Amsterdam 1989, eds Elrud Ibsch, Dick Schram and Gerald Steen (Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1991), 137–145); and Roger D. Sell, “Literary gossip, literary theory, literary pragmatics” (from Literature and the new interdisciplinarity: Poetics, linguistics, history, eds Roger D. Sell and Peter Verdonk (Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1994), 221–241).

The Modern Humanities Research Association, for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “Review article: Simulative panhumanism: A challenge to current linguistic and literary thought: Michael Shapiro, The sense of change: Language as history; Nicole Ward Jouve, White woman speaks with forked tongue: Criticism as autobiography; Tony Bennett, Outside literature; Sandy Petrey, Speech scts and literary theory; Joel Weinsheimer, Philosophical hermeneutics and literary theory” (from Modern Language Review 88 (1993): 545–558).

Palgrave Macmillan, for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “Modernist readings mediated: Dickens and the new worlds of later generations” (from Dickens, Europe and the new worlds, ed. Anny Sadrin (London & New York: Macmillan Press Ltd & St. Martins Press Inc., 1999), 294–299).

Peter Lang AG, for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “Communication: A counterbalance to professional specialization” (from Innovation and continuity in English studies, ed. Herbert Grabes (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001), 74–89).

Sage Publications Ltd (www​.sagepub​.co​.uk), for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell “Review: Jacob L. Mey, When voices clash: A study in literary pragmatics (from Language and Literature 10 (2001): 294–287).

Taylor & Francis Ltd (http://​www​.tandfonline​.com), for permission to reprint Roger D. Sell, “Politeness in Chaucer: Suggestions towards a methodology for pragmatic stylistics” (© Föreningen för Studia Neophilologica, from Studia Neophilologica 57 (1985):175–185, DOI: 10.1080/00393278508587918); Roger D. Sell, “Tellability and politeness in ‘The Miller’s Tale’: First steps in literary pragmatics (from English Studies 66 (1985): 496–512, DOI: 10.1080/00138388508598414); and Roger D. Sell, “Review: Balz Engler, Poetry and community (from English Studies 73 (1992): 265–266, DOI: 10.1080/00138389208598811).