Language in Place : Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment.

Intro -- Language in Place -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. The spatial turn and its relevance for stylistics -- 2. Defining landscape, place and environment -- 3. Roadmap -- References -- Chapter 2. Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Housman's a Shropshire Lad (1896/2010) -- 1.2 Marked theme in systemic functional grammar (SFG) -- 1.3 Conceptual metaphor theory and symbolism -- 2. Classifying and sorting marked Themes in relation to literary theme -- 2.1 Relation of place adjuncts to literary theme -- 3. Place adjuncts as conceptual metaphors or symbols and the present study -- 3.1 Poem 14 -- 3.2 Poem 35 -- 3.3 Poem 61 -- 3.4 Poem 30 -- 3.5 Poem 42 -- 3.6 Poem 17 -- 3.7 Poem 31 -- 3.8 Poem 32 -- 3.9 Poem 36 -- 3.10 -- 3.11 Summary on marked theme of place and conceptual metaphor -- References -- Chapter 3. Death by nature in two poems by Alden Nowlan -- 1. Death by nature -- 2. Text world theory -- 3. "Hens" -- 4. "Canadian January night" -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Liminal islands: A cognitive stylistic analysis of "Beyond the Pale" and "Rathlin" by Derek Mahon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Liminality -- 3. Text World Theory -- 4. Resonance -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 "Beyond the pale" -- 5.2 "Rathlin" -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. -- Appendix B. -- Chapter 5. Urban metaphors: Conceptual and literary depictions of cities in the Bible -- 1. Biblical cities -- 2. From critical spatiality to metaphor -- 2.1 Cities and critical-spatial theory -- 2.2 Cities, framing, and metaphor theory -- 3. Developing a stylistic approach to the production of city space.

3.1 Primary conceptual metaphors -- 3.2 Other conceptual metaphors -- 3.3 Novel (literary) metaphors -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6. The Arabic of Dune: Language and landscape -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Names and naming in the Dune series -- 3. Herbert's Arabic -- 4. Language and landscape -- 5. Language and environment -- 6. Names and name-change in the first three Dune novels: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), and Children of Dune (1976) -- 6.1 Arrakis, "the dancer" -- 6.2 Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib, "the teacher"/Usul, "the base of the pillar"/Lisan al-Gaib "the voice from the other world," Kwisatz haderach, "the shortening of the way" -- 6.3 The princess/priestess Alia, sister to Muad'Dib -- 6.4 Ghanima, the daughter of Muad'Dib -- 6.5 Assan Tariq - young guide for The Preacher -- 6.6 Farad'n → Harq al-Ada, "Breaking the Habit" -- 6.7 Shai-hulud, the giant sandworm of Arrakis -- 6.8 The Shadout Mapes -- 6.9 Sayyadina Jessica -- 6.10 The Bene Gesserit -- 6.11 Arabic and Slavic names of place -- 7. The legacy of Dune -- References -- Chapter 7. (Re)mapping "authentic" London: Iain Sinclair's London Overground (2015) and the semiotic landscape of London's East End -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical deliberations: Making (urban) places -- 3. Sinclair's London -- 4. The semiotic landscape of Shoreditch -- 5. Literary place-making in London Overground -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. "Boston Strong": Place-making practices and enregisterment in the Boston Marathon discourse 2013/2014 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Place-making, enregisterment, and resulting methodology -- 3. Place-making strategies in the Boston Marathon Corpora -- 3.1 Description - content - discourse - place aboutness -- 3.2 Modality - commitment and distancing -- 3.3 Trauma and transitivity.

3.4 Reclaiming Boston 2013 and 2014 - linguistic and social performance of belonging -- 4. Conclusion: "Boston Strong" - short-term enregisterment as place-making -- References -- Chapter 9. Naming as styling: Inauthenticity in building names in Singapore -- 1. The city as text -- 2. Style and styling -- 3. Style and names -- 4. Authenticity and names -- 5. The postmodern turn -- 6. Building names -- 6.1 "Wrong" language -- 6.2 Grammatical illiteracy -- 6.3 Orthographic manipulation -- 6.4 Invented names -- 7. The postmodernist response -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10. "She enjoys being stroked", "They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys": An ecostylistic scrutiny of animal agency and alternative discourse in Battersea Dogs &amp -- Cats Home website -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The need for alternative discourses on animals and the environment -- 3. Agency in human-animal studies and functional grammar -- 4. Methodological notes on the corpus -- 5. Methodological notes on the data -- 6. Ecostylistic analysis -- 6.1 Relational process type -- 6.2 Material process type -- 6.3 Mental process type -- 6.4 Behavioural, verbal and existential process types -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 11. "Your planet needs you": An ecostylistic analysis of an ecology-oriented interactive exhibition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Notes on selection and methodology -- 3. Ecostylistic analysis -- 3.1 Characterisation and point of view -- 3.2 The mixing of non-specialised and specialised language -- 3.3 Lexical cohesion and parallelism -- 3.4 Multimodal metaphors -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Online resources -- Name index -- Subject index.

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