Mick Short, Professor of English Language and Literature, Lancaster University

Mick Short, Professor of English Language and Literature in the department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. His main interests are in the linguistic stylistic analysis of literary texts and he is best known for Style in Fiction, which he published in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech in 1981. He has strong current interests in the study of (a) viewpoint, (b) speech, writing and thought presentation, (c) the analysis of drama and film dialogue (and how it is...