Rodopi, 2008. — 517 pages. — (Poetics and Linguistics Association). — ISBN: 978-90-420-2428-1.This collection of papers represents the culmination of the 26th annual conference of The Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) which was held at the University of Joensuu, in Eastern Finland, in July 2006. The State of Stylistics is the fifth volume of the highly successful and
widely regarded PALA Papers series. The Joensuu conference proved to be a great success, with over 130 participants in attendance representing nearly every corner of the globe. The theme of the conference, The State of Stylistics, was intentionally ambiguous.ContentsTheoretical Outlooks
‘Where are you going to my pretty maid? For detailed analysis, sir, she said.’
A Grammarian's Funeral: On Browning, Post-Structuralism, and the State of Stylistics
On Genuine Interdisciplinarity: Articulating Poetics as Theory
Trewe Love at Solentsea? Stylistics Vs. Narratology in Thomas Hardy
Who Is Afraid of Stylistics? Postgraduate Students’ Responses to Stylistics
Cognitive Stylistics
Fusion Style: Towards a Poetics of the Grotesque Body
Donald Barthelme’s Art of Storytelling: A Cognitive Semiotic Textual Analysis of ‘On the Deck,’ ‘At the Tolstoy Museum’ and ‘The Baby’
Evoking Interest, Evoking Meaning: The Literary Theme and the Cognitive Function of Stylistic Devices
‘Why Get Upset Over a Few Cases of Rhinoceritis?’: Possible Worlds in the Theatre of the Absurd
Corpus Stylistics
A Multivariate Study of Style Differences in Poetry
e-Lears: a Corpus Approach to Shakespeare and Tate
Measuring Text Similarity Between the Two Editions of John Fowles’s The Magus
‘My Dearest Minnykins’: Style, Gender and Affect in 19th Century English Letters
Pragmatics and Discourse Stylistics
Functional Stylistics and Peripeteic Texts
You Can’t Put Your Foot in the Same River Once: Relevance Stylistics and Rereading
Dialogue and Discourse Structure: A Speech Move Analysis of Sherman Alexie’s Story ‘What You Pawn I Will Redeem’
Stylistic Analysis of Discoursal Identity Formation in Biographic Interviews with Two Senior Teachers of English in Hungary
Stylistics in the Classroom
The Ellipsis of Haiku: The Effects of Poetic Ellipsis in the Framework of Relevance Theory
Emotion Tracking Pedagogy: Towards Better Teaching of the National Curriculum for English
Real People or Verbal Constructs: A Stylistic Analysis of Character in Fiction
Just for Laughs: The Construction of Nonverbal Humour
On the Phrase ‘Even with a Weight of Pleasure’ in The Prelude (Bk 2, 178)
(Im)Politeness in Dramatic Dialogue: Understanding Face-Attack in Shakespeare’s Othello
Mind-Style, Modality, and Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
