Katie Wales
List of John Benjamins publications in which Katie Wales is involved.
2026 Chapter 1: Vignette. Charles Dickens, teacher: Satire and metaphor Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 12–23 | Chapter
Charles Dickens’ general interest in education and educational reform is well known, but aside from Hard Times in particular his own knowledge of contemporary methods and discourses of teaching and learning has not been analysed in detail. In this chapter, Katie Wales illustrates examples of… read more
2025 Chapter 6. Where owls nest in beards: Making sense of Edward Lear’s Books of Nonsense Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021), Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins (eds.), pp. 93–113 | Chapter
In this chapter I analyse the 200 limericks which comprise Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense (1846, 3rd revised edition 1861) and More Nonsense (1872), which, word and illustration together provide a rich database for the study of the textual landscapes and readers’ mental representations. Degrees… read more
2017 Chapter 2. The role of analogy in Charles Dickens’ Pictures from Italy The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, Douthwaite, John, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru (eds.), pp. 21–30 | Chapter
Pictures from Italy (1846) is one of Charles Dickens’ lesser known works. There has been very little critical interest in this travelogue, and no linguistic analysis. In this chapter, I focus on the significant role of analogy in this text: broadly covering similes (like, as); quasi-similes (as… read more
2015 Chapter 5. ‘Loquor, ergo sum’: ‘I’ and animateness re-considered The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 95–104 | Article
My title echoes Lyons (1982), who was himself much indebted to the work of Benveniste (1966). I shall first critique Benveniste’s ideas about the first person pronoun and le sujet parlant. For my purposes here I want to argue for the primacy of the rhetorical situation of discourse, rather than the… read more
2010 Northern English in Writing Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 61–80 | Article
Northern English is an important variety of British English, which has tended to be neglected in textbooks on the history of English. The chapter describes Northern English from the Early Modern period (1500–1900), based on evidence from a wide range of vernacular texts and styles. The first… read more
1995 Your Average Generalisations: A Case-Study in Historical Pragmatics Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 309–328 | Article
1989 Martyn F. Wakelin - 1935-1988 English World-Wide 10:1, pp. 119–121 | Miscellaneous