Taking a poem to pieces / John Sinclair - Stylistics / David Lodge - Linguistic function and literary style / Michael Halliday - On the deviance of literary discourse / Henry Widdowson - Language, linguistics and literary analysis / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt - Linguistic criticism / Roger Fowler - Metre / Geoffrey Leech - Discourse analysis and drama / Mick Short - Poem, reader, response / Michael Toolan - Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / Ron Carter - Changing the guard at Elsinore / Walter Nash - But what is literature? / Willie van Peer - Deixis and the poetic persona / Keith Green - Bakhtin, addressivity, and the poetics of objectivity / Alison Tate - Teach yourself rhetoric / Katie Wales - World enough and time / Paul Werth - Making the subtle difference / Guy Cook - Educating the reader / Jean Jacques Weber - Satirical humour and cultural context / Paul Simpson - (Sur)real stylistics / Peter Stockwell - Feeling moved by metaphor / Ray Gibbs - Point of view in drama / Dan McIntyre - Conrad in the computer / Michael Stubbs -- 'Split selves' in fiction and in medical 'life stories' / Catherine Emmott - Too much blague? / Joanna Gavins - A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction / Elena Semino - Connectives in free indirect style / Violeta Sotirova - Stylistics / Ron Carter and Peter Stockwell