Billy Clark

List of John Benjamins publications in which Billy Clark is involved.

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Pragmatics and Literature

Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark

Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 35] 2019. xiv, 225 pp.

Articles

Clark, Billy 2026 Chapter 11: Vignette. Ghost worlds: Irony and indeterminacy Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 138–147 | Chapter

Clark’s chapter applies Simpson’s (2011, 2019, 2024) model of irony to explore how ideas about irony might apply to the production and understanding of two related texts, the graphic novel Ghost World and its film adaptation. There are indeterminacies in the examples drawn from both texts,… read more

Chapman, Siobhan and Billy Clark 2019 Chapter 1. Introduction Pragmatics and Literature, Chapman, Siobhan and Billy Clark (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter

Clark, Billy 2019 Chapter 7. “Lazy reading” and “half-formed things”: Indeterminacy and responses to Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Pragmatics and Literature, Chapman, Siobhan and Billy Clark (eds.), pp. 139–164 | Chapter