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Showing papers in "Language and Literature in 2021"


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Guy Cook1
TL;DR: The authors discusses the morality of W. B. Yeats' sonnet Leda and the Swan in the context of a widening gap between the sexual mores of earlier times and our own, and whether the poem remains a su...
Abstract: The article discusses the morality of W. B. Yeats’ sonnet Leda and the Swan in the context of a widening gap between the sexual mores of earlier times and our own, and whether the poem remains a su...

16 citations


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TL;DR: Conspiracy fantasy or "conspiracy theory" is an enduring genre of discourse historically associated with authoritarian political move as discussed by the authors, and it is a popular topic in political discourse. But it is not a legitimate topic for discussion.
Abstract: Conspiracy fantasy or – to use the more common but less accurately descriptive term – ‘conspiracy theory’ is an enduring genre of discourse historically associated with authoritarian political move...

12 citations


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Abstract: This article furthers the somewhat underdeveloped area of research regarding the consideration of complex theoretical concepts such as postmodernism and metafiction in relation to children’s litera...

9 citations


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TL;DR: A number of Chinese migrant writers have achieved success in writing in English, one of the most significant being Jung Chang, with her politically controversial Wild Swans as mentioned in this paper, a key site for controve...
Abstract: A number of Chinese migrant writers have achieved success in writing in English, one of the most significant being Jung Chang, with her politically controversial Wild Swans. A key site for controve...

8 citations


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TL;DR: The authors explored two 21st century novels by the British postmodernist author Ian McEwan, one of the first to explore cognitive-poetic and possible worlds theories, and the other to explore the possible worlds theory.
Abstract: Framed by cognitive-poetic and possible worlds theories, this article explores two 21st century novels by the British postmodernist author Ian McEwan. Building upon Ryan’s (1991) seminal conceptual...

7 citations


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TL;DR: The authors confronted the theoretical tenets of reader-oriented short story collection theory and its implications for a literary analysis of Benni's I bar sotto il mare (1987) with the results of their analysis.
Abstract: This article confronts the theoretical tenets of reader-oriented short story collection theory and its implications for a literary analysis of Benni’s Il bar sotto il mare (1987) with the results o...

6 citations


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TL;DR: The authors examined three examples of direct address in the TV series Fleabag, featuring actor gaze alongside use of second-person you or actor gaze alone, highlighting the need to account for different deictic referents of you, with the pronoun able to refer intra-and extradiegetically.
Abstract: This article examines direct address, or ‘breaking the fourth wall’, in the BBC TV series Fleabag. It applies Text World Theory to telecinematic discourse for the first time and, in doing so, contributes to developing cognitive approaches in the field of telecinematic stylistics. Text World Theory, originally a cognitive linguistic discourse processing framework, is used to examine how multimodal cues contribute to the creation of imagined worlds. We examine three examples of direct address in Fleabag, featuring actor gaze alongside use of the second-person you or actor gaze alone. Our analysis highlights the need to account for the different deictic referents of you, with the pronoun able to refer intra- and extradiegetically. We also explore viewers’ ontological positioning because ‘breaking the fourth wall’ in telecinematic discourse evokes an addressee who is not spatiotemporally co-present with the text-world character. We therefore propose the concept of the split text-world, which assists in accounting for the deictic pull that viewers may feel during direct address and its experiential impact. Our analysis suggests that telecinematic direct address is necessarily world-forming but can ontologically position the viewer differently in different narrative contexts. While some instances of direct address in Fleabag position the viewer as Fleabag’s narratee and confidant, there is increasing play with direct address in the show’s second series and a destabilisation of this narratee role, achieved through the suggestion that Fleabag’s addressee may be more psychologically interior than they first appear.

5 citations


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TL;DR: This article explored the pervasiveness of features of orality in the language of performed fiction and found that these features are typical of spontaneous spoken conversations where they are the result of t...
Abstract: This paper explores the pervasiveness of features of orality in the language of performed fiction. Features of orality are typical of spontaneous spoken conversations where they are the result of t...

5 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the author extended the author's theory of multilevel grounding in meaning generation from its original application to music to the domains of visual cognition and poetry, based on the notions of...
Abstract: This article extends the author’s theory of multilevel grounding in meaning generation from its original application to music to the domains of visual cognition and poetry. Based on the notions of ...

5 citations


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TL;DR: This article argued for the distinctive nature of cognition involved in correspondence, arguing that this cognition is highly creative and in corollary arguing that the cognition is positioned in a way that it is positioned with respect to correspondence.
Abstract: This article argues for the distinctive nature of cognition involved in correspondence, arguing that this cognition is highly creative and in corollary, arguing that this cognition is positioned wi...

5 citations


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TL;DR: This paper examined the discourse found in guinea pigs with the National Trust in the UK and reported on some of the results of a project undertaken by researchers at the University of Sheffield with The National Trust.
Abstract: This article reports on some of the results of a project undertaken by researchers at the University of Sheffield with The National Trust in the UK, which seeks to examine the discourse found in gu...

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TL;DR: Blann's comic "Things We had" as mentioned in this paper is a complex and nuanced multimodal realisation of a tense interaction between a couple, rendered through the subtle interplay of narration, panel compositi...
Abstract: Joe Blann’s (2011) comic ‘Things We had’ is a complex and nuanced multimodal realisation of a tense interaction between a couple, rendered through the subtle interplay of narration, panel compositi...

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TL;DR: The application of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to analyse literary texts has been a prevalent approach in the field of stylistics as mentioned in this paper, however, previous studies have mainly focused on th...
Abstract: The application of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to analyse literary texts has been a prevalent approach in the field of stylistics. However, previous studies have mainly focused on th...

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TL;DR: The metrical theory devised by Eduard Sievers and refined by A. J. Bliss forms the basis for most current scholarship on Old English meter as mentioned in this paper. But the weakness of the Sievers-Bliss theory is that it occupie...
Abstract: The metrical theory devised by Eduard Sievers and refined by A. J. Bliss forms the basis for most current scholarship on Old English meter. A weakness of the Sievers–Bliss theory is that it occupie...

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TL;DR: The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author publicity materials suggest the concept of an author's creative intentions is important to readers' appreciation as discussed by the authors, which may explain the popularity of biographies.
Abstract: The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author publicity materials suggest the concept of an author’s creative intentions is important to readers’ appreciation...

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TL;DR: The late linguist M.A.K. Halliday described the last paragraph of Darwin's Origin of Species, with its description of a tangled bank, as one of the most remarkable paragraphs in the whole of litera...
Abstract: The late linguist M.A.K. Halliday described the last paragraph of Darwin’s Origin of Species, with its description of a tangled bank, as one of the most remarkable paragraphs in the whole of litera...


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the framework is adaptable to any narrative and is not exclusive to literature: it is up to the reader to connect those narratives through their "mental archives".
Abstract: ‘six word stories’ (stories told in six words), young adult fiction such as Twilight, literary classics such as Shakespearian plays, TV series like How I Met Your Mother, and other narratives such as the Marvel Universe, amongst others. This shows that the framework is adaptable to any narrative and is not exclusive to literature: it is up to the reader to connect those narratives through their ‘mental archives’. Therefore, Mason’s main objective with this book is indeed achieved.

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TL;DR: This article pointed out that "incorrect" lexical innovations and fashionable words (i.e. n-grams) were used by the author of the novel "Pride and Prejudice".
Abstract: Previous scholarship on Jane Austen has often commented on the moral overtones of her lexical choices; more specifically, the fact that “incorrect” lexical innovations and fashionable words (i.e. n...