Joanna Gavins

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joanna Gavins is involved.

Book series

Linguistic Approaches to Literature

Edited by Sonia Zyngier and Joanna Gavins

ISSN 1569-3112

Title

Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)

Edited by Michael Burke and Joanna Gavins

This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the founding members… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 44] 2025. vi, 190 pp.

Articles

Gavins, Joanna 2025 Chapter 8. Cognition and the creative interplay of word and image in Apollinaire’s “ Il Pleut ” Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021), Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins (eds.), pp. 130–147 | Chapter

This chapter honours two of Peter Verdonk’s long-standing scholarly interests: first, the relationship between word and image in poetry; and second, the cognition of literary style. In his article, “Painting, poetry, parallelism: ekphrasis, stylistics and cognitive poetics”, Verdonk states that… read more

Gavins, Joanna 2019 Chapter 12. Afterword Experiencing Fictional Worlds, Neurohr, Benedict and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw (eds.), pp. 219–223 | Chapter

Gavins, Joanna 2014 Metaphor studies in retrospect and prospect: An interview with Gerard Steen Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:2, pp. 493–510 | Article