Prof Paul Simpson and the brilliant collection of Stylistics essays in his honour. Everyone involved in the secret is now free to contact him!
Teaching English? Check out the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit for explanations, applications and free material.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/stylisticstoolkit
Honoured to have just given the opening talk (online) at the ‘Linguistic Horizons’ conference of Kherson State University, Ukraine.
This is me there in 2019 on Vyshyvanka Day
Our latest episode is here and features an interview with the brilliant Jess Norledge where we explore the connections between language and dystopian fiction. You can listen here on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube. Don't forget to follow, rate and all that jazz! open.spotify.com/episode/79Sy...
Very happy to have a piece in this celebratory essay collection for Paul Simpson, alongside so many brilliant stylisticians. My vignette is on Happy Valley, and turned out such good fun to write!
Want to help science about the understanding of comics? My lab is running several new studies about the cognition of comics! If you want to participate, here’s the first new study which relates to visual storytelling. Works on a Mac/PC and takes about 10-15 minutes jatos.uvt.nl/publix/run?c...
A free hit for #Boro, this. If we lose to Hull, fair enough and well done to our Yorkshire neighbours. But after a duplicitous fleeing manager, injuries to key players, cheating and lying, classless opposition players, and justice in the end - we are still here, and We Shall Be
Come on Boro!
So StylisticsAir has brought me to Belfast for a talk later at Queens, and a secret mission
Boom!
This turned out to be a brilliant collection of hot stylistics. Just look at that cast list!
Get a copy into your library forthwith
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