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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Introduction: Language, Text and Context Revisited
SECTION 1 Plots and Progression
2 Covert Progression, Language and Context
3 La La Land: Counterfactuality, Disnarration and the Forked (Motorway) Path
4 Scribbling Suspense and Surprise
SECTION 2 Patterns and Predictions
5 Investigating Syntactic Simplicity in Popular Fiction: A Corpus Stylistics Approach
6 ‘We work hard here’: Exploring Person and Place Deixis in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Letters
7 The Devil Has All the Best Tunes: An Investigation of the Lexical Phenomenon of Brexit
8 Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations
SECTION 3 Pragmatics and Perception
9 ‘Intending to Mean, Pretending to Be’: Reflections on the Limits on Genre
10 Indeterminacy and Interpretation: What Is Shown and What Is Hidden in Michael Haneke’s Caché
11 Reliability, Unreliability, Reader Manipulation and Plot Reversals: Strategies for Constructing and Challenging the Credibility of Characters in Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction
12 Metaphoric Interpretations of a Short Story by J. D. Salinger: A Reader-Response Study
SECTION 4 Projection and Positioning
13 Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Paralinguistic…
14 Quotation and Overhearing in Austen
15 Suppression, Silencing and Failure to Project: Ways of Losing Voice While Using It
16 ‘Hey YouTube’: Positioning the Viewer in Vlogs
SECTION 5 Politics
17 The Value of Intertextual Associations: How GM Technologies Are Given Value Through Association
18 Public Women: Power, Gender and Semiotic Representations
19 The Citizen Caught Between Dialogue and Bureaucracy
List of Contributors
Index
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