Michael Toolan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147771 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Toolan |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Toolan |
| ASSINATURA | TOOLAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9801-4878 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory
The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality
Stylistic iconicity and Love's two orders of language
Peter Black, Christopher Stevens, class and inequality in the Daily Mail
This article is part of a larger study of changes in British newspaper representations of wealth inequality in the United Kingdom from 1971 to the present day. Selected findings are reported from a corpus-linguistically based comparative critical discourse analysis of large samples (approximately 55,000 words each) of TV programme reviews that appeared in the Daily Mail, written by the TV critics Peter Black (in 1971) and Christopher Stevens (in …
Stylistics and film
Legal definitions
Trust and text, text as trust
In this essay I celebrate and interrogate John Sinclair’s seminal paper, ‘Trust the text’, a paper in which several radically new ideas about the role of prospection and encapsulation in the reader’s processing of text are outlined. I mention some of the ways in which trust is fundamental to matters of language and cooperative communication, but also try to enlarge on what I think Sinclair has in mind. In reading on (and not re-reading), as we ne…
Geoffrey Sampson , The “language instinct” debate. Revised edition
Geoffrey Sampson , The “language instinct” debate. Revised edition. London and New York: Continuum, 2005. Pp. xiii, 224. Pb $30.00. First published in 1997 under the title Educating Eve but now revised and expanded and with a useful foreword from Paul Postal, this book presents and critiques all the main arguments that have been offered in support of the thesis that a body of language-specific knowledge is innate in the human child. Sampson finds…
Identity in Narrative
The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology
The Writer’s Craft, the Culture’s Technology explores the multiple ways in which a culture’s technological resources shape its literary productions. Literature and style cannot be divorced from the particular technologised culture that sponsors them. This has always been true, as papers here on literature from earlier periods show. But many of the papers focus on contemporary culture, where literature vies for attention with film, the internet, a…
Le Politiquement Correct Dans le Monde Français
The discoursal evidence in Le Monde in a recent year (June 2000 to June 2001) suggests that the metropolitan French media, and by extension the readership it serves, conceive of and use le politiquement correct in ways rather less `charged' and sharply political than in North America or the UK. Occasionally, it is invoked with respect to foreign political trends, almost never to domestic ones; much more often it is invoked in the course of cultur…
Timing is crucial
What makes you think you exist?’
Linguistic assets
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Integrationist linguistics in the context of 20th century theories of language
Total Speech
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In Total Speech , Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the same…
Don't leave your language alone
Recentering English
The times and the language are a-changin'. But how much and in how many ways
Respond, Hypothesize, Count, Correlate, Discuss
On doing things for other people
Language and power in critical linguistics
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
Perspectives on literal meaning
The Stylistics of Fiction
Through a detailed analysis of one text, Toolan considers whether style is a linguistic topic or a topic in the literary criticism and appreciation of a text. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of literary criticism, literary theory, linguistics and pragmatics
Roy Harris, The language machine. London
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Le Politiquement Correct Dans le Monde Français
The discoursal evidence in Le Monde in a recent year (June 2000 to June 2001) suggests that the metropolitan French media, and by extension the readership it serves, conceive of and use le politiquement correct in ways rather less `charged' and sharply political than in North America or the UK. Occasionally, it is invoked with respect to foreign political trends, almost never to domestic ones; much more often it is invoked in the course of cultur…
Analysing fictional dialogue
Peter Black, Christopher Stevens, class and inequality in the Daily Mail
This article is part of a larger study of changes in British newspaper representations of wealth inequality in the United Kingdom from 1971 to the present day. Selected findings are reported from a corpus-linguistically based comparative critical discourse analysis of large samples (approximately 55,000 words each) of TV programme reviews that appeared in the Daily Mail, written by the TV critics Peter Black (in 1971) and Christopher Stevens (in …
Ruling out rules in the analysis of conversation
Analyzing a Speech Event
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
Stylistic iconicity and Love's two orders of language
Integrationist linguistics in the context of 20th century theories of language
On doing things for other people
Language and power in critical linguistics
Perspectives on literal meaning
Analysing Conversation in Fiction
In this article I propose to demonstrate some of the ways in which the theories and principles developed by linguists and conversational analysts for the systematic study of discourse and natural conversation may be illuminatingly applied to the stylistic and structural study of a fictional conversation within a literary text. I acknowledge at the outset that natural and fictional conversation differ in many ways. It is not merely that in fiction…
Style in Fiction
Foreword Introduction Part I: Approaches and methods 1. Style and Choice 2. Style, Text and Frequency 3. A Method of Analysis and some Examples 4. Levels of Style Part II: Aspects of style 5. Language and the Fictional World 6. Mind Style 7. The Rhetoric of Text 8. Discourse and Discourse Situation 9. Conversation in the Novel 10. Speech and Thought Presentation Passages and topics for further study Further reading Bibliography Index of works dis…
Analysing fictional dialogue
Interpretation, Deconstruction, and Ideology
Analysing Conversation in Fiction
In this article I propose to demonstrate some of the ways in which the theories and principles developed by linguists and conversational analysts for the systematic study of discourse and natural conversation may be illuminatingly applied to the stylistic and structural study of a fictional conversation within a literary text. I acknowledge at the outset that natural and fictional conversation differ in many ways. It is not merely that in fiction…
Roy Harris, The language machine. London
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ruling out rules in the analysis of conversation
Analyzing a Speech Event
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
The Stylistics of Fiction
Through a detailed analysis of one text, Toolan considers whether style is a linguistic topic or a topic in the literary criticism and appreciation of a text. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of literary criticism, literary theory, linguistics and pragmatics
Perspectives on literal meaning
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
Respond, Hypothesize, Count, Correlate, Discuss
On doing things for other people
Language and power in critical linguistics
Recentering English
The times and the language are a-changin'. But how much and in how many ways
Total Speech
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In Total Speech , Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the same…
Don't leave your language alone
Linguistic assets
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Integrationist linguistics in the context of 20th century theories of language
What makes you think you exist?’
Le Politiquement Correct Dans le Monde Français
The discoursal evidence in Le Monde in a recent year (June 2000 to June 2001) suggests that the metropolitan French media, and by extension the readership it serves, conceive of and use le politiquement correct in ways rather less `charged' and sharply political than in North America or the UK. Occasionally, it is invoked with respect to foreign political trends, almost never to domestic ones; much more often it is invoked in the course of cultur…
Timing is crucial
The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology
The Writer’s Craft, the Culture’s Technology explores the multiple ways in which a culture’s technological resources shape its literary productions. Literature and style cannot be divorced from the particular technologised culture that sponsors them. This has always been true, as papers here on literature from earlier periods show. But many of the papers focus on contemporary culture, where literature vies for attention with film, the internet, a…
Trust and text, text as trust
In this essay I celebrate and interrogate John Sinclair’s seminal paper, ‘Trust the text’, a paper in which several radically new ideas about the role of prospection and encapsulation in the reader’s processing of text are outlined. I mention some of the ways in which trust is fundamental to matters of language and cooperative communication, but also try to enlarge on what I think Sinclair has in mind. In reading on (and not re-reading), as we ne…
Geoffrey Sampson , The “language instinct” debate. Revised edition
Geoffrey Sampson , The “language instinct” debate. Revised edition. London and New York: Continuum, 2005. Pp. xiii, 224. Pb $30.00. First published in 1997 under the title Educating Eve but now revised and expanded and with a useful foreword from Paul Postal, this book presents and critiques all the main arguments that have been offered in support of the thesis that a body of language-specific knowledge is innate in the human child. Sampson finds…
Identity in Narrative
Philosophy (27 obras) · Linguistics (25 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Art (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 obras)