Language and Literature

Papers
(The median citation count of Language and Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Poetry in the Mind22
Disability stylistics: An illustration based on Pew in Stevenson’s Treasure Island19
A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction: Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study in higher education pedagogy10
Book Review: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press7
Book Review: Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor TsakonaVilly, Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2024; xi, 264 pp.: 9789027246
Author gender and text characteristics in contemporary Swedish fiction5
Posthumanist stylistics4
‘I don’t know how it is best to put this thing down’: Uncooperative narration in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier4
The JOURNEY metaphor in Marc-Antoine Mathieu’s graphic novel → ( Sens )4
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives3
Neurodivergence, foregrounding, and narrative empathy: A study on readers’ responses to textual manipulation3
Disinherited protagonists in the early history of T/V variation in Middle English3
Book Review: Authenticity and the Public Literary Self: Will the ‘Real’ Author Please Stand Up IyerSreedhevi, Authenticity and the Public Literary Self: Will the ‘Real’ Author Please Stand Up, Oxford:3
30 years of Language and Literature3
Weaving narrative threads with social psychological processes: Narrative modulations in online consumer reviews of a medical memoir2
Who tells your story: Narration in Hamilton: An American Musical2
Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym2
Diachronicity: An issue shared between linguistics and literary studies2
Negation, expectation and ideology in written texts. A textual and communicative perspective NahajecLisa, Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts. A Textual and Communicative Perspective. 2
Strategies of text-world consolidation in reviews of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing2
Panoramic social minds: Social minds manipulations in ‘A Mother’1
The reader in the text across time and genres1
Book Review: Translation and style1
Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus1
‘If you’re going to do something that’s new and different in an area that hasn’t been looked at much before, you probably need to start with something not too complex’: An interview with Mick Short1
‘Stylistics will never become boring’: An interview with Paul Simpson1
The year’s work in stylistics 20221
Sensory modality as a linguistic sign of the ‘divided self’ in John Banville’s novels1
Editor’s note1
Book Review: Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language)1
A new approach to the stylistic analysis of humour1
Character’s mental functioning during a ‘neuro-transition’: Pragmatic failures in Flowers for Algernon1
The year’s work in stylistics 20211
Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios1
Cognitive Grammar and Readers’ Perceived Sense of Closeness: A Study of Responses to Mary Borden’s ‘Belgium’1
“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse1
Chaucerian modernities: (De)-constructing literary history in The Canterbury Tales1
‘Novelty’ through narrative and paratextual voice: The case of John Minford’s translation of ‘The laughing girl’1
Dementia mind styles in contemporary narrative fiction1
Book Review: Surprised by sound: Rhyme’s inner workings1
Book Review: The Language of Dystopia0
Sensuous modernity: The linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of early 1920s Vogue0
‘There are all sorts of lives’: Internal dialogicity within first-person narration in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark0
The creation of Chinese personae in Steinbeck’s fiction0
Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’s Christian Charitie0
Book Reviews: Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics0
- ly adverbs in fictional speech presentation: Functions and patterns0
Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies0
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story0
‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews0
A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation0
Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children0
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations0
Book Review: Ritual and language KádárDániel, Ritual and Language, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024; 262 pp.: ISBN: 9781108472968, $105.00(hbk).0
The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases0
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language0
Book Review: Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception and Metaphor0
‘I watch your hands like butterflies landing’: Embodied dynamicity in Nick Cave’s similes0
In memoriam Tony Bex0
Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide0
Developments in autofictional genre signals: Nouns, pronouns and authorial attachment0
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets0
Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar0
‘There was all this terminology proliferating and the students needed to know precise terms, not vague or impressionistic ones’: An interview with Katie Wales0
The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel in Beowulf0
‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas0
Contemporary present-tense fiction: Crossing boundaries in narrative0
Broadening horizons: An interview with Geoff Hall0
Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series0
Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach0
Suspenseful indirectness in gangster film dialogue: A pragma-stylistic study of Scorsese’s mob bosses0
Is Heidi really happier in the mountains? A mixed-methods investigation of spatial affect in fiction0
Book Review: Translation and Style (second version)0
Book Review: Intralingual translation of british novels: A multimodal stylistic perspective0
‘Just saying it like it is’: A comparative study on the characterizations of Chris Christie and Donald Trump as tough-guy politicians0
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed0
Book Reviews: Corpus approaches to language in social media0
What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis0
Book Reviews: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction0
Linking Emotions to Surroundings: A Stylistic Model of Pathetic Fallacy0
Book Review: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction0
Book Reviews: Stylistic approaches to pop culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)0
The restricted possible worlds of depression: A stylistic analysis of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing using a possible worlds framework0
Book Review: Storyworld Possible Selves0
Professor Dr Peter Verdonk 21 April 1934–5 November 20210
Diachronic perspectives on digital reading culture: Crying readers from the age of sensibility to BookTok0
Book Review: The Gestalts of Mind and Text GoodblattChanitaGlicksohnJoseph, The Gestalts of Mind and Text, Routledge: Oxon, 2022; 188 pp.: ISBN 9780367350710, £130.00 (hbk)0
Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style0
Book Reviews: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies0
Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events0
The conventional organisation of request sequences in Scottish letters (1570–1750)0
Book Review: Slowing Metaphor Down0
Book Reviews: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse0
Book review: Fiction and pragmatics0
Book Review: Children’s Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity through Fiction Cermakova A and Mahlberg M (2024) Children’s Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity Thr0
Affixal negation and linguistic creativity: A corpus-based case study of negative affixes in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s discourse on race0
A stylistic model of the converse of pathetic fallacy0
Reconfigured reality in scenarios of transformed identity, invasion and environmental threat: The diachronic exploration of recognition scenes in anglophone print and film narratives0
‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation0
The year’s work in stylistics 2023 & 20240
Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach0
Language, nature, and the framing of death: An ecostylistic analysis of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here0
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