2012年第14次学术讲座——Language and Literature: An Introduction to Stylistics

讲座名称：Language and Literature: An Introduction to Stylistics

讲座人：  英国贝尔法斯特女王大学Paul Simpson教授

讲座时间：2012年10月24日上午10：00                                         

讲座地点：外语楼111报告厅                             

联系人：何伟文、都岚岚

演讲者简介：

Paul Simpson is a Professor of English Language in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast. He teaches and researches in many areas of English language and linguistics and his publications have included, inter alia, studies of the sociolinguistic features of pop singing styles, the pragmatics of advertising discourse and the linguistic patterns of verbal humour. He is best known for his books and articles in stylistics and critical linguistics and his publications in this area include Language, Ideology and Point of View, Language through Literature and Stylistics, all published by Routledge. He is the co-editor of Language, Discourse and Literature (Unwin Hyman) and from 2003 to 2009 he edited Language and Literature, the journal of the International Poetics and Linguistics Association. His monograph on the discourse of satire was published by Benjamins in 2003, while his co-authored textbook Language and Power appeared in 2009. In addition to his duties as co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s new series Language, Style and Literature, Simpson is currently preparing a second edition of his stylistics textbook for Routledge (for publication in 2014) as well as writing a monograph on the pragmatics of irony for Continuum Publishers. He has recently been elected Chair of the international Poetics and Linguistics Association.

演讲内容梗概：

This talk offers an overview of the branch of contemporary language study known as Stylistics. The speaker will demonstrate a range of techniques in literary-linguistic analysis, taking examples from a wide variety of genres of literature. The presentation is highly interactive such that attendees will be asked to participate in numerous exercises and short mini-activities. Overall, the presentation is designed to illustrate the potential and significance of linguistic analysis in the study of literature.

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   外国语学院

     2012年10月