Contents
Manuel Jobert, Dan McIntyre & Clara Mallier
Foreword ………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Geoffrey Leech
Virginia Woolf Meets Wmatrix …………………………………………….. 15
Mick Short
Discourse Presentation and Speech (and Writing,
but not Thought) Summary ………………………………………………….. 27
Craig Hamilton
“The Rhetoric of Text” Reconsidered in Fiction and
Autobiography …………………………………………………………………… 43
Claire Majola-Leblond
The Three S’s of Stylistics……………………………………………………. 55
Linda Pillière
Mind Style: Deviance from the Norm? ………………………………….. 67
Clara Mallier
The Meaning of Concessive Clauses in Jim Harrison’s Work:
a Grammatical Reading of Mind Style ………………………………….. 81
Michael Toolan
Is Style in Short Fiction Different from Style in Long Fiction?…. 95
Vanina Jobert-Martini
Readerly Involvement in the First Chapter of Edna O’Brien’s
The Country Girls………………………………………………………………. 107
Marie-Agnès Gay
Breach of Contract: Pragmatic Variations on a Theme in
Richard Ford’s Short Story “Privacy”………………………………….. 119
Dan McIntyre
Language and Style in David Peace’s 1974: a Corpus
Informed Analysis …………………………………………………………………. 133
Marie-Pierre Mounié
Imitation, Style, Fiction: Ethics of Writing, Ethics of Reading
in Chatterton, by Peter Ackroyd…………………………………………… 147
Manuel Jobert
Total Report in Alan Bennett’s “A Cream Cracker Under
the Settee” ………………………………………………………………………… 163
Lesley Jeffries
Readers and Point-of-view in Contemporary Poems:
a Question of Pronouns ………………………………………………………. 175
Simone Rinzler
Coetzee’s Style in Disgrace………………………………………………….. 191
Contributors ……………………………………………………………………………… 205
Abstracts…………………………………………………………………… 209
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