All Stories

  1. Language Contact and the Future of English
  2. Introduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature
  3. Rethinking Reader and Writer Responsibility in Academic English
  4. Response to Sabine Fiedler
  5. English as a Lingua Franca
  6. Does science need a global language?
  7. Lexical innovation: cromulently embiggening a language
  8. ELF and the alternatives
  9. English as a lingua franca in Europe: bilingualism and multicompetence
  10. Chapter 1. Fair play to them
  11. Introduction
  12. Negotiating Europe's Lingua Franca
  13. Adrian Pilkington, Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective
  14. Paradigms of Reading
  15. Pragmatic Banality and Honourable Bigotry
  16. Relevance and Rhetoric
  17. ‘Positive Hermeneutics’: Relevance and Communication
  18. When Lucy ceas’d to be
  19. Relevance Theory and Spoken Communication
  20. ‘Negative Hermeneutics’: Themes, Figures, Codes and Cognition
  21. Mechanical Performatives
  22. Words and the World: The Problem of Reference
  23. The Madness of Words and the Enunciating Subject
  24. Rhetoric as an Insurmountable Obstacle
  25. Words, Concepts and Tropes
  26. Institutionalized utterances, literature, and language teaching
  27. Improvisation, Creativity, and Formulaic Language
  28. Pragmatism, Rhetoric, and History
  29. RELEVANCE AND WRITING
  30. Terrible Beauty: Paul de Man's Retreat from the Aesthetic
  31. AUTHOR, TEXT, READER AND COMMUNITY
  32. Tom Stoppard: The Monological Imagination
  33. Narratology and Thematics
  34. Wittgenstein and Aesthetic Responses
  35. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Uses of Forgery
  36. Multi-competence and English as a lingua franca