Michael Henry 'Mick' Short (born 1945) is a

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. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on

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with a special focus on stylistics.

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 ''

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

Awards

In 2000 Short was awarded with the

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. 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.

Publications

Short has publications in several major journals such as ''Applied Linguistics'', ''The Journal of Literary Semantics'', ''

'', ''Language and Style'', ''Narrative'', ''Poetics'', ''Style'', and ''Text''. 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.

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. do

* 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. do

* 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. do

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Short, Michael 1945 births Living people Applied linguists Linguists from the United Kingdom Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University