Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) 9789027261953, 9027261954

Table of contents :
"Warmth of thought" in Walter Nash's prose and verse / Susan Cockcroft and Robert Cockcroft --
Chrysanthemums for Bill: on Lawrentian style and stylistics / Peter Stockwell --
The doubling of design in Walter Nash's Rhetoric: The wit of persuasion / David Stacey --
Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W.H. Auden's "The wanderer" / Peter Verdonk --
"My Shakespeare, rise": Ben Jonson's pronominal choices in "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author" (1623) / Clara Calvo --
Discourse presentation and point of view in "Cheating at canasta" by William Trevor / Mick Short --
Doing and teaching: from Kettle of roses to Language and creative illusion and back again / Michael Toolin --
Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy / Michael Stubbs --
Common language: corpus, creativity and cognition / Ronald Carter --
"Americans don't do irony": cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony / Paul Simpson --
Poem. Defunct address / Robert Cockcroft.

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