A majestic study of speech, writing, and thought presentation in the 19th century novel. The use of highly focused corpus data and linguistic annotations greatly increase the depth offered by this work. Further depth comes from a wide range of perspectives taken on the subject, including cognitive, historical, narratological, and literary investigations. The result is a rich, highly textured, and insightful work.
Beatrix Busse is Vice-Rector of Student Affairs and Teaching and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Cologne (Germany). She is Reviews Editor for the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and honorary research fellow at Glasgow University, and co-author or editor of multiple books including Patterns in Language and Linguistics: New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept (2019), Rethinking Language, Text and
Context (2018), Key Terms in Stylistics (2010), and Language and Style (2010). Her main research interests are corpus linguistics, stylistics, historical pragmatics, and language and urban space.