36.2297, Books: Style as Motivated Choice: Burke and Gavins (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 30-Jul-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Style as Motivated Choice: Burke and Gavins (eds.) (2025)


Title: Style as Motivated Choice
Subtitle: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)
Series Title: Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/lal.44

Editor(s): Michael Burke; Joanna Gavins

eBook ISBN:  9789027244840 Pages:  196 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244840 Pages:  196 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244840 Pages:  196 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220387 Pages:  196 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220387 Pages:  196 Price: Europe EURO 127.20
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220387 Pages:  196 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220387 Pages:  196 Price: U.S. $ 156.00

Abstract:

This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one
of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late
20th and early 21st centuries, Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was
Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the
founding members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
Many of his colleagues from PALA have contributed chapters to this
volume. Each author has chosen as their starting point one of
Verdonk’s ideas on literary and linguistic style. Through his many
nuanced and illuminating stylistic analyses, Verdonk’s works explore
questions pertaining to: How can we recognise styles and stylistic
features? How is style used in literary and non-literary contexts?
What is the relationship between text and discourse and between
production and reception? And, centrally, how can we consider ‘style’
as ‘motivated choice’. The chapters in this volume are erudite and
inspirational. Reflecting Verdonk's own influence on the discipline of
stylistics and his career-long support of younger scholars, they will
motivate new stylistics researchers and students for decades to come.

Written In: English (eng)



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