Peter Stockwell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter Stockwell is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730
Titles
Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell
Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] 2026. xv, 285 pp. + index
Cognitive Grammar in Literature
Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan
This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 17] 2014. xiv, 255 pp.
2026 Introduction: Practising Stylistics Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
2026 Chapter 3: Vignette. Textual momentum Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 36–44 | Chapter
One of the standard protocols in stylistics, evident throughout Paul Simpson’s work, is the identification of an authentic readerly effect that has previously been only impressionistically described, in order then to provide an analytical textual account for that effect. In this short vignette,… read more
2025 Chapter 1. Style in its contexts: The case of John Donne Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021), Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins (eds.), pp. 6–20 | Chapter
Peter Verdonk’s stylistics was contextually-sensitive throughout all of his published work. As a scholar of both language and literature, he understood that “context” meant more than a simple historicising and unidirectional reading across from the moment of creative production. Context involves… read more
2021 Chapter 9. In defence of introspection Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods, Bell, Alice, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 2. Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 37–56 | Chapter
This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a
key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both
specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The
chapter addresses those criticisms, differentiating those that are… read more
2019 Chapter 2. Immersion and emergence in children’s literature Experiencing Fictional Worlds, Neurohr, Benedict and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw (eds.), pp. 15–32 | Chapter
Immersion – the sense of attentional involvement and displacement in a fictional world – has been established as an experiential phenomenon in psychology and psycholinguistics, but little focus has been given to the understanding of the nature of the experience itself, especially in relation to… read more
2016 Chapter 13. Point and CLiC: Teaching literature with corpus stylistic tools Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments, Burke, Michael, Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Article
This chapter looks at the corpus tool CLiC, a web application specifically designed for the study of literary texts. It allows students to run concordances or generate keywords, for instance. It gives students the opportunity to work with a corpus of Dickens novels, but also with novels by other… read more
2014 Chapter 1. Introduction: Cognitive Grammar in literature Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2014 Chapter 2. War, worlds and Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), pp. 19–34 | Article
2008 Cartographies of cognitive poetics Pragmatics & Cognition 16:3, pp. 587–598 | Article
The founder of Cognitive Poetics, Reuven Tsur, has seen his project broaden and evolve over the last quarter-century. Some of these developments run counter to Tsur’s continuing thinking, and he has been critical of some of the work that now goes under the name ‘cognitive poetics’. This paper is… read more
2002 Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis, Semino, Elena and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Chapter