Stylistics, criticism and mythrepresentation again: Squaring the circle with Ray Mackay's subjective solution for all problems

Language and Literature

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-50

  Short, Mick ^a   Freeman, Donald C ^b   Van Peer, Willie ^c   Simpson, Paul ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Explicitness; Falsifiability; Foregrounding; Literary criticism; Literary theory; Natural sciences; Objectivity; Social sciences; Speech community; Stylistics; Subjectivity; Textual analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248759205     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709800700103     Document Type: Article

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