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Episode 60 - Stylistics with Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge


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Show notes for Episode 60

Here are the show notes for Episode 60, in which Raj and Dan talk to Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and Jessica Norledge, Assistant Professor in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham about stylistics, including:

  • What stylistics is and what it offers

  • How English language students can apply linguistic analysis to literary texts

  • The Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit project

  • Some of their favourite tools in the toolkit

  • Why stylistics is a linguistic superpower

  • The (free!) Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit is here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/common/stylisticstoolkit/StylisticsToolkit/content/#/ 

    Peter Stockwell’s University of Nottingham profile page: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/peter.stockwell 

    Jessica Norledge’s University of Nottingham profile page: 

    https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/jessica.norledge 

    Our previous interview with Jess about the language of dystopia: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gnJ0ZiPSKkXvzx3G6HRDe?si=A6u-5LwHQ7avOIMHAxe6Eg 

    Pocahontas Colors of the Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i0HDygKdLM

    Carol Ann Duffy reads Valentine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFhFgyImwtE 

    Jess and Peter will be running some teacher CPD with Dan at The English and Media Centre in London in December and January. You can find out more here: 

    Non-fiction: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/acbaed53-8a27-48cc-96b5-db6ce1b1995f/emc-cpd-face-to-face-new-approaches-to-non-fiction-for-a-level-lang-lit/

    Reading fictional minds: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/61cd442a-68d2-4cd2-a172-f2a4d2206d31/emc-cpd-face-to-face-reading-fictional-minds-viewpoints-character-in-english-lan/ 

    And keep an eye out for an A-Level Lang Lit student conference in April 2025 at University of Nottingham. 

    Contributors

    Lisa Casey 

    blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

    Dan Clayton 

    blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

    Jacky Glancey 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

    Raj Rana

    Matthew Butler 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

    Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

    Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 


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