The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about
youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail …

Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and
stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why …

This article contributes new insights into the interplay between textual and reader factors in
experiences of narrative empathy, or empathy with characters in narrative. It adds to the …

This book provides a comprehensive account of the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis
(CDA) and demonstrates multiple linguistic methods through which it exposes and …

In this article, we profile an empirically grounded, cognitive approach to immersion in digital
fiction by combining text-driven stylistic analysis with insights from theories of cognition and …

Style plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and
Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of …

A tendency by literary stylisticians to overlook the role of the author in the generation of
literary meaning has been a significant source of tension between linguistic approaches to …

During 2020, sales of books increased as readers found more time to engage with fiction
and return to books that provided comfort and a sense of escapism. The Covid-19 pandemic …

Stylistics offers a wealth of benefits to English teachers who wish to integrate aspects of
language and literature together, and to engage their students in a text-driven, reader …

Studying Fiction provides a clear rationale alongside ideas and methods for teaching
literature in schools from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Written by experienced linguists …