The year’s work in stylistics 2018

Statham, Simon; Montoro, Rocío

doi:10.1177/0963947019887565

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

2019

DOI: 10.1177/0963947019887565

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The year’s work in stylistics 2018

Simon Statham¹,

Rocío Montoro

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“…Indeed, revisiting the past is often necessary for a discipline to move forwards, to foster new development. This book has done this so well that it has been called “the epitome of [the] backwards and forwards motions” in stylistics (Statham and Montoro, 2019: 354). The context-sensitive or context-oriented analyses of texts of diverse types, as demonstrated in the chapters of this volume, point to the fact that the interdependency of language, text, and context will remain a central part of stylistics.…”

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The relationship between language, text, and context has been an essential component of stylistics since its inception. The three concepts are inseparable; as Halliday and Hasan (1985: 117) put it, "text is language operative in a context of situation and contexts are ultimately constructed by the range of texts produced within a community". In stylistics, the connections between the three were made clear and extensively explored in Michael Toolan's wide-ranging edited collection Language, Text and Context (1992). The edited volume reviewed here pays tribute to Toolan and revisits the connections between language, text, and context in stylistics. This book consists of 19 chapters. Apart from a chapter of Introduction written by the editors, the other 18 chapters are arranged into five sections, which, in the editors' words, "move (broadly speaking) from a focus on more textually oriented forms of context to the wider matters of political and ideological context" (p. 11). Chapter 1 presents the social, technological, and historical development that reshapes the concepts of language, text, and context since the 1990s. Page et al. also address the theories of linguistic anthropology, discourse studies, social semiotics, and cognitive linguistics that have enriched our understanding of the connections between language, text, and context and outline the development of new methods of stylistic analysis since the publication of Toolan's seminal collection. Section 1, "Plots and Progression", focuses on textual patterns and their stylistic effects on the audience. Dan Shen (Chapter 2) explores the covert progression centred on the conflict between the individual and society which parallels the overt plot about family or personal conflict in Kafka's "The Judgment" (1913) and Katherine Mansfield's "The Singing Lesson" (1920). The covert progression is revealed through detailed stylistic analysis of language use in the text and supported by contextual evidence, for example Kafka's letters and Mansfield's diary. Marina Lambrou (Chapter 3) analyses a "whatmight-have-been" scenario in the film La La Land (2016) as an alternative, counterfactual divergence, which is interlinked with forked paths (the coexistence of contradictory pathways in narrative) and disnarration (what is told but does not actually happen). This plot development subverts the audience's expectations associated with traditional musical romantic comedy. Matthew Collins and Mel Evans (Chapter 4) present a corpus-based study of the narrativity of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century epistolary writing, focusing on the narrative features of suspense and surprise. Both the stylistic and sociohistorical dimensions of early modern epistolary narrative are discussed. In the second section, "Patterns and Predictions", textual patterns are further related to extratextual elements such as literary genre, identity, and ideology. Rocío Montoro's corpus-based analysis in Chapter 5 finds that there is an under-occurrence of nouns and a lower frequency of post-modifying prepos...

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Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights as an example of genre transformation in the contemporary novel – a linguistic and literary view

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Drawing from both German and Polish linguistic and literary perspectives, the article attempts to examine genre changes within the genre pattern of the novel and decide whether Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, described by the author herself as a novel, should be attributed to this genre. We assume that linguistic and literary tools will allow us to determine the most characteristic features of contemporary novel productions to decide on the nature of changes taking place within the studied genre. Looking at Tokarczuk’s work not through the prism of a single genre but, following Maria Wojtak, Kirsten Adamzik or Ulla Fix, from the perspective of inter-genre relations, allows not only to conclude that the analyzed material is located on the fringes of the genre pattern of the novel but also to see other inter-textual dependencies and consider the text under study as a genre in the form of a collection.

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The year’s work in stylistics 2018

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References 113 publications

Book Review: Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard (eds.), Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan

Book Review: Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard (eds.), Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan

Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style

Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights as an example of genre transformation in the contemporary novel – a linguistic and literary view

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