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Professor Elena Semino on Stylistics

An introduction to corpus linguistics

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Professor Elena Semino, University of Lancaster, introduces stylistics, corpus linguistics and metaphor in literature and everyday life.

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An introduction to stylistics

How stylistics is used to analyse literary texts: Curious Incident of the Dog

How Professor Semino carries out a stylistics analysis (Curious Incident of the Dog)

Using corpus linguistics to move from analysing an extract to a whole text (Curious Incident of the Dog)

An introduction to stylistics methodology

Explaining foregrounding: linguistic deviation & parallelism

Using stylistics to analyse non-literary texts

An introduction to corpus linguistics

An introduction to metaphor in literature and life

Metaphor in everyday contexts, including research into metaphors for cancer