Episode 60 - Stylistics with Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge

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A podcast about language and linguistics for A Level English Language students, teachers and anyone else who's interested in language.

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A podcast about language and linguistics for A Level English Language students, teachers and anyone else who's interested in language.

Language Learning

Education

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Episode 60 - Stylistics with Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge

Lexis

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1 year ago

Episode 60 - Stylistics with Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge

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

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