Michael Short (linguist)

Michael Henry Short
Born (1945-12-11) 11 December 1945 (age 79)
Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Michael Henry 'Mick' Short (born 1945) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.[1] His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on stylistics.[2]

Career

In 1979 he founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association where he and acted as the treasurer from 1979 to 1982, and later served on the committee. The association started a journal, Parlance, at his instigation, and it was produced at Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University between 1988 and 1991.

In 1985, Short co-founded the journal Language and Literature.[3]

In 2006 he organised the Style in Fiction Symposium in Lancaster.

Awards

In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship.[4]

In 2005 Short and Geoffrey Leech's book Style in Fiction was awarded the PALA 25th anniversary Book Prize as the most influential book in the field of stylistics.[5]

Publications

Short has publications in several major journals such as Applied Linguistics, The Journal of Literary Semantics, Language and Literature, Language and Style, Narrative, Poetics, Style, and Text.[6]

Short's most famous publication is entitled Style in Fiction, co-authored with Geoffrey Leech. The book was first published in 1981 and has sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide.[7]

In 1995, Short began compiling the research and notes made by Paul Werth, a text linguist who had been developing his text world theory before his death in that same year. Werth's monograph, Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space, was edited and completed by Short between 1995 and 1998, before being published in 1999.[8]


Bibliography

Books

  • Culpeper, J., Short, M., Verdonk, P., Culpeper, J. (Ed.), Short, M. (Ed.), & Verdonk, P. (Ed.) (1998). Exploring the language of drama : from text to context. London: Routledge.
  • Semino, E., & Short, M. H. (2004). Corpus stylistics: speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing. London: Routledge.
  • Leech, G., & Short, M. (2007). Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose. (English language series). Harlow: Pearson Longman.

Articles

  • Heywood, J., Semino, E., & Short, M. H. (2002). "Linguistic metaphor identification in two extracts from novels". Language and Literature, 11(1), 35–54.
  • Short, M. H., Halász, L., & Varga, A. (2002). "A cross-cultural study of fictional and non-fictional text understanding". Poetics, 30(3), 195–219. doi:[1]
  • Short, MH & Archer, D 2003, "Designing a world-wide web-based stylistics course and investigating its effectiveness". Style, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 27–64.
  • Semino, E., Heywood, J., & Short, M. H. (2004). "Methodological problems in the analysis of a corpus of conversations about cancer". Journal of Pragmatics, 36(7), 1271–1294. doi:[2]
  • McIntyre, D., Bellard-Thomson, C., Heywood, J., McEnery, A. M., Semino, E., & Short, M. H. (2004). "Investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in British English : a corpus-based approach". ICAME Journal, 28, 49–76.
  • Short, M. H., Busse, B., & Plummer, P. (2006). "Afterword". Language and Literature, 15(3), 321–322.
  • Short, M. H., Busse, B., & Plummer, P. (2006). "Preface: The web-based Language and Style Course, E-learning and Stylistics". Language and Literature, 15(3), 219–233.
  • Short, M. H. (2006). "E-learning and Language and Style in Lancaster". Language and Literature, 15(3), 234–256. doi:[3]

References

  1. ^ "Short - Lancaster University". lancaster.ac.uk. 6 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Short at the Higher Education Academy". Higher Education Academy. 6 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Language and Literature". Sage Publications. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  4. ^ "National Teaching Fellow 2000". Higher Education Academy. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Special Offer - 2005 PALA Prize winning authors Geoffrey Leech & Mick Short". Pearson Education. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Michael Short - Publications". Lancaster University. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Style in Fiction". 9 February 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  8. ^ Gavins, Joanna (2007-03-07). Text World Theory An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2299-3.