Stylistics

Useful Links

There are a number of journals and organisations around the world that reflect contemporary work in stylistics. Some important links can be found below.

Organisations

The main international association for stylisticians is the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). In addition to its yearly conference, PALA also runs an annual international summer school with bursaries for attendance available to students. The PALA website is: http://www.pala.ac.uk

Please note that PALA is free to join for registered students!

Other related or ‘sister’ organisations to PALA included the French Stylistics Association, the Société de Stylistique Anglaise. Their website is: http://stylistique-anglaise.org

Academic Journals in Stylistics.

Language and Literature is the official journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (see above) and, unsurprisingly, publishes articles in stylistics. Its home page is at:
http://lal.sagepub.com

Other major resources are the journals Style and the Journal of Literary Semantics both of which publish work in stylistics and related fields. Their websites are, respectively, http://www.style.niu.edu/index.html and http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jlse.

Of course, numerous other journals in both English Language and English Literary Studies regularly publish articles in stylistics, notable examples of which are the journals Poetics (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/poetics/) and Poetics Today (http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org).

All of these mainstream journals should be freely available to students through University library catalogues. Many articles are also downloadable from the authors’ websites under ‘green’ Open Access regulations.