Michael Short (linguist)

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.{{cite web|title=Language and Literature|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/language-and-literature/journal200860#editorial-board|publisher=Sage Publications|language=English|date=9 April 2019|access-date=9 April 2019}}

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

In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship.{{cite web|title=National Teaching Fellow 2000 |url=https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/content-classification/national-teaching-fellow-2000|publisher=Higher Education Academy |language=English|date=9 April 2019|access-date=9 April 2019}}

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.{{cite web|title=Special Offer - 2005 PALA Prize winning authors Geoffrey Leech & Mick Short|url=http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/bookshop/subject.asp?item=7787&affid=PAL|publisher=Pearson Education|language=English|date=9 April 2019|access-date=9 April 2019}}

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.{{cite web|title=Michael Short - Publications|url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/people/mick-short#publications|publisher=Lancaster University|language=English|date=9 April 2019|access-date=9 April 2019}}

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.{{cite web|title=Style in Fiction|url=https://www.routledge.com/Style-in-Fiction-A-Linguistic-Introduction-to-English-Fictional-Prose/Short-Leech/p/book/9780582784093|publisher=|language=English|date=9 February 2009|accessdate=9 April 2019}}

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.{{Cite book |last=Gavins |first=Joanna |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622993.001.0001 |title=Text World Theory An Introduction |date=2007-03-07 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2299-3}}

• 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.

• 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]

{{Reflist}}

• {{official website|https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/people/mick-short}}

{{Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Short, Michael}}

Category:1945 births

Category:Living people

Category:Applied linguists

Category:Linguists from the United Kingdom

Category:Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham