In this final week of the course, we will be exploring how the use of methods from corpus linguistics has transformed stylistics. If you’re not familiar with corpus linguistics, don’t …
What makes certain parts of a picture or scene stand out in relation to the rest? In this video, Dan McIntyre explains the concept of foregrounding and its origins in …
Hello and welcome to this four-week course on stylistics! In this first video you’ll meet the tutors on the course, Dan McIntyre, Lesley Jeffries and Louise Nuttall. You’ll hear an …
When we read stories, either fiction or non-fiction, inevitably we form impressions about characters. But how does this happen? In this video, Professor Dan McIntyre explains the role of language …
What do we mean when we talk about ‘style’? In this video, Louise Nuttall talks about the idea of linguistic style, which is all about the choices we make in …
There are lots of different ways in which we can report what other people say. And these options each create different stylistic effects. Watch the video above, in which Lesley …
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Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning