In:Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 45] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
List of contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction: Practising Stylistics1
Clara Neary
Simon Statham
Peter Stockwell
Chapter 1: Vignette.Charles Dickens, teacher: Satire and metaphor12
Katie Wales
Chapter 2.Trump’s superlatives, his discursive absolutism, and the
changing character of the public sphere24
changing character of the public sphere24
Martin Montgomery
Chapter 3: Vignette.Textual momentum36
Peter Stockwell
Chapter 4.Reading Covid poetry: A cognitive modal grammar account45
Marcello Giovanelli
Chapter 5: Vignette.Non-events in stylistics: An analysis of a passage from Zadie Smith’s NW
61
Joe Bray
Chapter 6.On satire and The Third Policeman70
Michael Toolan
Chapter 7: Vignette.A cross-cultural study of cohesion and narrative
schema in a short story entitled ‘The Stranger’86
schema in a short story entitled ‘The Stranger’86
Marina Lambrou
Chapter 8.‘And I was silent’: A pragmatic stylistic reading of John McGahern’s ‘Korea’97
Siobhan Chapman
Chapter 9: Vignette.Suspension in pedagogical stylistics112
Sonia Zyngier
Chapter 10.Space oddities: Comparing function and style in two types of talk121
Dan McIntyre
Chapter 11: Vignette.Ghost worlds: Irony and indeterminacy138
Billy Clark
Chapter 12.The Trump–Harris 2024 presidential debate: Polarised regimes of language, emotions and truth148
Sandrine Sorlin
Chapter 13: Vignette.Verbal and visual markers of discontent
in Don’t Worry Darling165
in Don’t Worry Darling165
Helen Ringrow
Chapter 14.The rhetoric of denunciation in Julie Otsuka’s Japanese trilogy175
Manuel Jobert
Chapter 15: Vignette.Point of view and modality in Brian Friel’s
‘The Diviner’190
‘The Diviner’190
Clara Neary
Chapter 16.Towards a local grammar of speech presentation in narrative fiction200
Michaela Mahlberg
Chapter 17: Vignette.Sharp wit, northern grit and verbal sparring
in Happy Valley216
in Happy Valley216
Christiana Gregoriou
Chapter 18.Narrative viewpoint, Free Indirect Discourse and irony
in a ‘garden-path’ chapter of All Names Have Been Changed226
in a ‘garden-path’ chapter of All Names Have Been Changed226
Jane Lugea
Chapter 19: Vignette.The rhythm of the humdrum and the clamour
of the lambeg: Narratives, style, and Irish identities243
of the lambeg: Narratives, style, and Irish identities243
Jeremy Scott
Chapter 20.Characterisation and adaptation of the drunken Dr Quirke253
Simon Statham
Chapter 21: Vignette.Alternating focalisation in Paul Lynch’s
Prophet Song269
Prophet Song269
Naomi Adam
Index
