Michael Short (linguist) explained

Michael Henry Short
Birth Date:	11 December 1945
Birth Place:	Lancaster, United Kingdom
Discipline:	Linguist
Sub Discipline:	Stylistics
Workplaces:	Lancaster University
Known For:	Stylistics

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.^[1] His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on stylistics.^[2]

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.^[3]

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

Awards

In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6]

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

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. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-422X(01)00046-8
• 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. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2003.10.013
• 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. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947006066125

Notes and References

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