Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century

Foreword: Professor Peter Verdonk.- Part I: Assessing and broadening the scope of Pedagogical Stylistics.- Chapter 1. Pedagogical stylistics (PS) since 2007. A baker's dozen. (Geoff Hall).- Chapter 2.  Corpora in the classroom: teaching style and register variation to Japanese EAP students via pedagogical corpus stylistics. (Marcus Bridle and Dan McIntyre).- Chapter 3. Literary Criticism and Linguistic Criticism: The Case of Ezra Pound's Present Perfect (Violeta Sotirova).- Chapter 4. Devices, Settings and Distractions: A study into how people read Literature. (Esmeralda Bon and Michael Burke).- Part II: Cognitive perspectives.- Chapter 5. Trust the reader. (Peter Stockwell).- Chapter 6. Re-thinking stylistics through Cognitive Grammar: Construal and point of view in the classroom. (Chloe Harrison and Marcello Giovanelli).- Chapter 7.  A text-world pedagogy for young stylisticians. (Ian Cushing).- Chapter 8. Text World Theory in the English Classroom (Joanna Gavins and Paul O´Farrell).- Part III: Reader Engagement and Feelings.- Chapter 9. Away from reading - toward oral feelings. Experiments on poetry with students. (Anna Chesnokova and Willie van Peer).- Chapter 10.  The challenges of evaluating literary text engagement using pedagogical stylistics with young bilingual learners. (Odette Vassalo).- Chapter 11. Multimodality and reader engagement. (Olivia Fialho and Natalia Igl).- PART IV: Innovations in the Educational Setting.- Chapter 12. Revising Role-Based Literature Circles for EFL Classrooms in Japanese Universities (Paul Sevigny).- Chapter 13. Rhyme and repetition in an EFL classroom in Brazil: An empirical assessment. (Juliana Jandre, Sonia Zyngier and Vander Viana).- Chapter 14. Why do I write this way?  - tracking the stylistic development of doctoral writers (Jane Spiro).- Chapter 15. A Study on the Correlation between L1 and L2

Sonia Zyngier is Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her relevant publications include 'Postscript: Pedagogical stylistics: Past and Future' (Language and Literature, 2020), and Language, Discourse, Style: Selected works of John McH. Sinclair (2016). She has co-authored, Scientific Methods for the Humanities (2012), Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments (2016), and a chapter in Innovations in Language Learning and Teaching (2020). She is an English language coordinator for Fundação CECIERJ, and co-edits the Linguistic Approaches to Literature series (John Benjamins).

 

Greg Watson has published widely in linguistic stylistics, pedagogical stylistics, and language contact studies. He is a former Professor of English Language and Culture at the University of Eastern Finland, Adjunct Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Tampere, andAdjunct Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Oulu. His publications include Doin' Mudrooroo. Elements of Style and Involvement in the Early Prose Fiction of Mudrooroo (1997), and The State of Stylistics (2008). He has also co-edited Finno-Ugric Language Contacts (2006), and Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners (2007).