Michael Short (linguist)

Michael Henry Short
Born (1945-12-11) 11 December 1945 (age 80)
Lancaster, United Kingdom
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WebsiteShort on the website of Lancaster University

Michael Henry 'Mick' Short (born 1945) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on applied linguistics 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 Language and Literature.

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

Awards

In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship.

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 Literature, 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.

In 1995, Short began compiling the research and notes made by Paul Werth, a text linguist who had been developing his text world theory before his death in that same year. Werth's monograph, Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space, was edited and completed by Short between 1995 and 1998, before being published in 1999.

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ "Short - Lancaster University". lancaster.ac.uk. 6 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "Short at the Higher Education Academy". Higher Education Academy. 6 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Language and Literature". Sage Publications. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "National Teaching Fellow 2000". Higher Education Academy. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "Special Offer - 2005 PALA Prize winning authors Geoffrey Leech & Mick Short". Pearson Education. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "Michael Short - Publications". Lancaster University. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Style in Fiction". 9 February 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  8. ↑ Gavins, Joanna (2007-03-07). Text World Theory An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622993.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-7486-2299-3.