Linguistic Approaches to Literature

Editors

Sonia Zyngier | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Joanna Gavins | University of Sheffield

This book series is peer reviewed and indexed in: Book Citation Index (BCI )* ; Scopus

Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL) provides an international forum for researchers who believe that the application of linguistic methods leads to a deeper and more far-reaching understanding of many aspects of literature. The emphasis is on pragmatic approaches intersecting with areas such as experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, and philosophy.

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ISSN: 1569-3112

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal

Volumes

45	Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell Expected May 2026. xv, 285 pp. + index
44	Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021) Edited by Michael Burke and Joanna Gavins 2025. vi, 190 pp.
43	A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao 2024. xx, 269 pp.
42	Transformative Reading Olivia Fialho 2024. xii, 263 pp.
41	A Life with Poetry: The development of poetic literacy Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer 2023. x, 194 pp.
40	Creative Writing Across the Curriculum: Meaningful literacy for college writers across disciplines, languages, and identities Justin Nicholes 2022. xvii, 225 pp.
39	Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni 2022. xv, 448 pp.
38	Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A textual and communicative perspective Lisa Nahajec 2021. xiii, 218 pp.
37	Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey 2021. vii, 258 pp.
36	Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow 2021. vii, 236 pp.
35	Pragmatics and Literature Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark 2019. xiv, 225 pp.
34	Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) Edited by Paul Simpson 2019. ix, 205 pp.
33	Intertextuality in Practice Jessica Mason 2019. xi, 204 pp.
32	Experiencing Fictional Worlds Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw 2019. xiii, 228 pp.
31	Cognitive Rhetoric: The cognitive poetics of political discourse Sam Browse 2018. xi, 235 pp.
30	The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin 2018. vi, 221 pp.
29	Free Indirect Style in Modernism: Representations of consciousness Eric Rundquist 2017. xvii, 197 pp.
28	The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics Edited by John Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru 2017. vii, 238 pp.
27	Narrative Absorption Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru 2017. ix, 319 pp.
26	Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction Chloe Harrison 2017. ix, 164 pp.
25	Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova 2016. vi, 216 pp.
24	Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments Edited by Michael Burke, Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier 2016. xix, 309 pp.
23	Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic 2016. xix, 419 pp.
22	Language, Discourse, Style: Selected works of John McH. Sinclair Edited by Sonia Zyngier 2016. xxiii, 282 pp.
21	Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization Edited by Natalia Igl and Sonja Zeman 2016. viii, 185 pp.
20	Crime and Corpus: The linguistic representation of crime in the press Ulrike Tabbert 2015. xvii, 181 pp.
19	Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel Edited by Dan Disney 2014. v, 157 pp.
18	A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves Giuseppina Balossi 2014. xxi, 277 pp.
17	Cognitive Grammar in Literature Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan 2014. xiv, 255 pp.
16	Creative Confluence Johan F. Hoorn 2014. xv, 320 pp.
15	The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of ethical and emotional persuasion Howard Sklar 2013. xiv, 192 pp.
14	Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue: Precategorial information in poetry Reuven Tsur † 2012. xi, 310 pp.
13	Scientific Methods for the Humanities Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier 2012. xxii, 328 pp.
12	Epistemics of the Virtual Johan F. Hoorn 2012. x, 231 pp.
11	Author Representations in Literary Reading Eefje Claassen 2012. ix, 272 pp.
10	Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales Orrin W. Robinson 2010. xi, 190 pp.
9	Poetry as Research: Exploring second language poetry writing David I. Hanauer 2010. xiii, 164 pp.
8	Storytelling and Drama: Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays Hugo Bowles 2010. ix, 216 pp.
7	Psyche and the Literary Muses: The contribution of literary content to scientific psychology Martin S. Lindauer 2009. xiii, 209 pp.
6	Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A corpus stylistic approach Michael Toolan 2009. xi, 212 pp.
5	Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher 2008. xii, 357 pp.
4	The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation Edited by Willie van Peer 2008. ix, 243 pp.
3	Point of View in Plays: A cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text-types Dan McIntyre 2006. xii, 203 pp.
2	On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour Paul Simpson 2003. xiv, 242 pp.
1	Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper 2002. xvi, 333 pp.

Editorial info

Editors

Sonia Zyngier | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Joanna Gavins | University of Sheffield

Advisory Editorial Board

Alice Bell | Sheffield Hallam University

Douglas Biber | Northern Arizona University

Marisa Bortolussi | University of Alberta

Donald C. Freeman | University of Southern California

Richard J. Gerrig | Stony Brook University

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. | Independent Cognitive Scientist

Rachel Giora | Tel Aviv University

Arthur C. Graesser | University of Memphis

Frank Hakemulder | Utrecht University

Geoff M. Hall | University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Don Kuiken | University of Alberta

Paisley Livingston | University of Copenhagen

Michaela Mahlberg | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Keith Oatley | University of Toronto

Willie van Peer | University of München

Yeshayahu Shen | Tel Aviv University

Mick Short | Lancaster University

Paul Simpson | Liverpool University

Sandrine Sorlin | Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Michael Toolan | University of Birmingham

Subjects

Linguistics

Applied linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies