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Michael Stubbs Brief CV
Main positions
- 1990- : Professor of English Linguistics, University of Trier, Germany.
2013: retired from full-time teaching
- 1985-90: Professor of English, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
- 1974-85: Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK.
- 1973-74: Research Associate, University of Birmingham, UK.
Other positions
- 1994-99: Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK.
- 1988-91: Chair of BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics).
- 1985: Visiting Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany.
University study
- 1975: PhD University of Edinburgh.
- 1970: BA King's College Cambridge.
I have published books and articles on language in education,
discourse analysis, stylistics and corpus linguistics.
Some of my books have been translated into Catalan, French,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
I have lectured in Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, USA, Yemen,
and several European countries, most recently Norway, Sweden, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Current research and writing: text and corpus analysis, stylistics, intertextuality.
Recent articles
- (2021) Pragmatic patterns in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Text and Talk,
41 (5-6): 813-32.
- (2021) Text, intertext and meaning:
with illustrations from Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes.
In M Malá & A Čermáková eds. Variation in Time and Space,
De Gruyter. 37-63.
- (2019) Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy.
In P Simpson ed. Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language.
In Memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015),
Benjamins. 127-48.
- (2019) How to do things with intertextual patterns:
on Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. In B Busse & R Möhlig-Falke eds.
Patterns in Language and Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter.
- (2018) The (very) long history of corpora, concordances, collocations and all that.
In A Čermáková & M Mahlberg eds. The Corpus Linguistics Discourse.
Benjamins. 9-33.
- (2016) Corpus semantics. In N Riemer ed. Routledge Handbook of Semantics.
Routledge. 106-21.
- (2015) The textual functions of lexis.
In N Groom et al eds. Corpora, Grammar and Discourse. Benjamins. 97-115.
- (2015) Computer-assisted methods of analysing textual and intertextual competence.
In D Tannen et al eds. The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 2nd ed. Wiley. 486-504.
- (2014) Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts.
In M de los A Gómez González et al eds. The Functional Perspective on Language and
Discourse. Benjamins. 243-60.
- (2014) Quantitative methods in literary linguistics.
In P Stockwell & S Whiteley eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics.
Cambridge University Press. 46-62.
- (2014) Semantics. In C Leung & B Street eds.
Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies.
Routledge. 215-28
- (2014) Patterns of emotive lexis and discourse organization in short stories by James Joyce.
In P Blumenthal et al eds. Les émotions dans le discours.
Peter Lang. 237-53.
- (2013) Sequence and order: the neo-Firthian tradition of corpus semantics.
In H Hasselgård et al eds. Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis.
Benjamins. 13-33.
- (2009) The search for units of meaning: Sinclair on empirical semantics.
Applied Linguistics, 30, 1: 115-37.
- (2007) [with M Hoey, M Mahlberg, & W Teubert] Text, Discourse and Corpora.
Continuum.
- (2005) Conrad in the computer: examples of quantitative stylistic methods.
Language and Literature, 14, 1: 5-24.
If you're really interested, there are more details on my university website
here.
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