Paul Simpson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Simpson is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1569-3112
Titles
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour
Paul Simpson
This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks in stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, Simpson examines both the methods of textual composition and the strategies of interpretation for satire. Verbal irony is… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 2] 2003. xiv, 242 pp.
2025 Chapter 7. Mechanical inelasticity in discourse: A Bergsonian perspective on dialogue, humour and style Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021), Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins (eds.), pp. 114–129 | Chapter
This chapter explores the stylistics of humour with a particular focus on dialogue in television situation comedies. Having acknowledged previous stylistic work on verbal humour where the focus has been on structural elements in discourse, the present chapter moves on to balance research in… read more
2019 Chapter 10. “Americans don’t do Irony”: Cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 171–192 | Chapter
This chapter probes the common (and perhaps controversial)
perception of many in the UK and Ireland that people from North America
“don’t do” irony. Stimulated by the type of discussion found in Nash’s The Language of
Humour (1985), the author interrogates this folk
belief… read more
2019 Introduction Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2011 “That’s not ironic, that’s just stupid”: Towards an eclectic account of the discourse of irony The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 33–50 | Article
This article draws on a range of models from language studies, particularly from linguistic pragmatics, in order to elucidate patterns in the production and reception of irony in its social and cultural context. An expanded view of the concept of irony, it is suggested, allows for better modelling… read more