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Peter Stockwell

Professor of Literary Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

BA English Language and Literature (Liverpool 1988)

PhD (Liverpool 1991)

FEA (Fellow of the English Association) (from 2012)

I work in literary linguistics; cognitive poetics; stylistics; applied linguistics; science fiction; surrealism. I maintain an interest in sociolinguistics and in language education both in the UK and across the world. I have been a Vice-Dean, and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement. I have also spent 20 years involved in digital online education.

Teaching Summary

I don't see myself as a teacher in a direct sense. Instead I view my classes as places where research in literary linguistics - including my own - is presented to students for their own thinking.

Literary linguistics takes our best current knowledge of language and reading and applies it to questions of interpretation, aesthetics, literary value and criticism. My view is that it is the best and the proper way of pursuing literary scholarship. Any student who comes to one of my classes will be faced with a challenge to become a stylistician - and thereby to become a better literary critic, and a better thinker.

I believe that university classes should be intense, engaging and intellectually uncomfortable. The journey from new student of stylistics to a position of power over texts and readings is surprisingly short, and the best part of my job is seeing the light of understanding flick on in students' faces when they see what stylistics can do for them.

The measure of my success is not in snapshot surveys, module evaluations nor even the grades my students achieve: success is when one of my students, in 20 years time, takes a decision, or understands a part of their life, or takes a different direction from the one that otherwise they might have taken, as a delicate threaded and immeasurable consequence of something we worked through together years previously - and their life is enhanced by it.

Research Summary

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Selected Publications

  • NEARY, C., STATHAM, S. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2026. Practising Stylistics Benjamins.
  • ADAM, N., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and VOICE, M., eds., 2026. Immersion. The Experience of Literary Reading Edinburgh University Press.
  • NOLETTO, I., NORLEDGE, J. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2024. Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press.
  • GREGORY, R., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and SZUDARSKI, P., 2022. Routledge.

I welcome proposals for doctoral research in the broad area of literary linguistics. All of my previous research students not only completed their PhDs but also secured significant academic posts very soon after graduating. Many of them are now major figures in the field. My approach to doctoral supervision is to produce fully-rounded academics who will be regarded as important thinkers in literary linguistics.

Current Research

Visit my page for full details of my research. You will be able to download some of my work there: most articles beyond a year or so ago, plus the full text of some books. Please do support publishers by recommending books and journals to your library.

I work in literary linguistics, which broadly covers the fields of stylistics, narratology, cognitive poetics, and the sociolinguistics of literary reading. View my vodcast about .

  • ADAM, N., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and VOICE, M., eds., 2026. Immersion. The Experience of Literary Reading Edinburgh University Press.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2026. 'The subliminal factors of immersion'. In: N. ADAM, J. NORLEDGE and M. VOICE, eds., Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading Edinburgh University Press. 65-80
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2026. 'Textual momentum'. In: C. NEARY and S. STATHAM, eds., Practising Stylistics Benjamins. 36-44
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2026. 'Foreword // forward'. In: I. NOLETTO, A. SOARES and L. ARAUJO, eds., Stylistic Approaches to Global Speculative Fiction 鈥� Narratology, Multimodality, and Translation Cham. (In Press.)
  • NEARY, C., STATHAM, S. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2026. Practising Stylistics Benjamins.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2025. 'Stylistics'. In: J. ALBER and R.SCHNEIDER, eds., Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies Routledge. 187-99
  • MULLANY. L. and STOCKWELL, P., 2025. Studying the English Language: A Resource Book for Students 3rd edition. Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2024. 'Unspeakable languages'. In: I. NOLETTO, J. NORLEDGE and P. STOCKWELL, eds., Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press. 213-29
  • NOLETTO, I., NORLEDGE, J. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2024. Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2024. 鈥楽tyle in its contexts 鈥� the case of John Donne鈥�. In: J. GAVINS and S. ZYNGIER, eds., Style as Motivated Choice: In Memory of Peter Verdonk (1934-2021) John Benjamins. 6-20
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2024. 'A new ecology of language'. In: M. DREWNIOK and M. KUZNIAK, eds., Applied Cognitive Stylistics: From Ego to Eco Bloomsbury. 2-11
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2024. 'An outline of Process Grammar' At: Numbered mimeo: 海角黑料
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2023. 'Can children read irony? A cautionary tale'. In: A. CERM脕KOV脕 and M. MAHLBERG, eds., Children鈥檚 Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity Through Fiction Bloomsbury. 31-51
  • GREGORY, R., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and SZUDARSKI, P., 2022. Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2022. 'The principle of moments'. In: G. WATSON and S. ZYNGIER, eds., Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century Palgrave Macmillan. 107-29
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2022. 'The iconicity of style in contemporary science fiction' English Studies. 103(3), 494-511
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2022. 'Mind-modelling literary personas' Journal of Literary Semantics. 51(2), 131-46
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2022. 'Language, style and texture'. In: P.C. HOGAN, B. IRISH and L.P HOGAN, eds., The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion Routledge. 283-93
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2021. 鈥業n defence of introspection鈥�. In: A. BELL, S. BROWSE, A. GIBBONS and D. PEPLOW, eds., Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods Benjamins. 165-78
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2021. 鈥楻e-cognising Free Indirect Discourse鈥�. In: M. GIOVANELLI, C. HARRISON and L. NUTTALL, eds., New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style Bloomsbury. 17-34
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2021. 鈥楾he cognition of impossible languages鈥� 袙械褋褌薪懈泻 袦芯褋泻芯胁褋泻芯谐芯 褍薪懈胁械褉褋懈褌械褌邪. 小械褉懈褟 9 肖袠袥袨袥袨袚袠携 [Moscow University Bulletin. Series 9 Philology].
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2020. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction Second edition. Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2020. 鈥楥hrysanthemums for Bill: on Lawrentian style and stylistics鈥�. In: P. SIMPSON, ed., Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In Memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) 37-55
  • MAHLBERG, M., HENNESSEY, A., STOCKWELL, P. and WIEGAND, V., 2020. 鈥楽peech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel鈥� Language and Literature. 28(4), 326-53
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2020. 鈥楲iterary dialect as social deixis鈥� Language and Literature. 29(4), 358-72
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2019. 'Immersion and emergence in children鈥檚 literature'. In: B. NEUROHR and L. STEWART-SHAW, eds., Experiencing Fictional Worlds: Where Does a Text Take a Reader? 15-32
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2019. 鈥楽helley鈥檚 dominion: subliminal and ambient tonal effects across a literary work鈥�. In: C. HART, ed., Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse: From Poetics to Politics Edinburgh University Press. 20-36
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2017. The Language of Surrealism Palgrave Macmillan.
  • MAHLBERG, M., STOCKWELL, P. and WIEGAND, V., 2017. NATE.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2017. 'Poe's Gothic ambience'. In: L. BARONE and A. AMENDOLA, eds., Edgar Allan Poe Across Disciplines, Genres and Languages Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 7-23
  • MAHLBERG, M., STOCKWELL, P. and WIEGAND, V., 2017. The Programming Historian.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2016. 'Texture'. In: V. SOTIROVA, ed., The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics Bloomsbury. 458-73
  • MAHLBERG, M. and STOCKWELL, P., 2016. 鈥楶oint and CLiC: teaching literature with corpus stylistic tools鈥�. In: M. BURKE, O. FIALHO and S. ZYNGIER, eds., Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments John Benjamins. 251-67
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2016. 鈥楨nglish language studies from rhetoric to applied English鈥�. In: A. HEWINGS, L. PRESCOTT and P. SEARGEANT, eds., Futures for English Studies: Teaching Language, Literature and Creative Writing in Higher Education Palgrave Macmillan. 215-32
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2016. 鈥楾he texture of authorial intention鈥�. In: J. GAVINS and E. LAHEY, eds., World Building: Discourse in the Mind Bloomsbury. 147-64
  • MAHLBERG, M., DE JOODE, J., SMITH, C., STOCKWELL, P. and O'DONNELL, M., 2016. 鈥楥LiC Dickens 鈥� novel uses of concordances for the integration of corpus stylistics and cognitive poetics鈥� Corpora. 11(3),
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2015. 'Poetics'. In: E. DABROWSKA and D. DIVJAK, eds., The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. de Gruyter Mouton.
  • STOCKWELL, P. and MAHLBERG, M., 2015. 'Mind-modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield' Language and Literature. 24(2), 129-47
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2015. 'Cognitive stylistics'. In: R. JONES, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity Routledge. 218-30
  • MULLANY, L. and STOCKWELL, P., 2015. Introducing English Language: A Resource Book for Students 2nd edition. Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P. and WHITELEY, S., eds., 2014. The Handbook of Stylistics. Cambridge University Press.
  • HARRISON, C., NUTTALL, L., STOCKWELL, P. and YUAN, W., eds., 2014. John Benjamins.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2014. 'Atmosphere and tone'. In: P. STOCKWELL and S. WHITELEY, eds., The Handbook of Stylistics. Cambridge University Press. 360-74
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2014. 'War, worlds and Cognitive Grammar'. In: C. HARRISON, L. NUTTALL, P. STOCKWELL and W. YUAN, eds., Cognitive Grammar in Literature. Benjamins. 19-34
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2014. 'Creative reading, world and style in Ben Jonson's "To Celia"'. In: B. DANCYGIER, M. BORKENT and J. HINNELL, eds., Language in the Creative Mind. CSLI. 157-72
  • STOCKWELL, P. and WHITELEY, S., 2014. 'Introduction'. In: P. STOCKWELL and S. WHITELEY, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics Cambridge University Press. 1-9
  • HARRISON, C. and STOCKWELL, P., 2013. 'Cognitive poetics'. In: J. LITTLEMORE and J. TAYLOR, eds., The Companion to Cognitive Linguistics. de Gruyter Mouton. 218-33
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2013. 'The positioned reader' Language and Literature. 22(3), 263-77
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2012. 'Aesthetics'. In: R. LATHAM, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction Oxford University Press. 35-46
  • GAVINS, J. and STOCKWELL, P, 2012. 'About the heart, where it hurt exactly, and how often' Language and Literature. 21(1), 33-50
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2012. Concatenation.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2012. 'The surrealist experiments with language'. In: J. BRAY, A. GIBBONS and B. MCHALE, eds., The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature Routledge. 48-61
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2012. 'The reader's paradox'. In: M. BURKE and S. CSABI, eds., Current Trends in Pedagogical Stylistics Continuum. 45-57
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2012. 'Peter Stockwell'. In: P. BUNGAARD, H.S. NIELSEN and F. STERNFELT, eds., Five Questions: Narrative Theories and Poetics 237-43
  • STOCKWELL, P.J., 2012. Ethics and imagination in literary reading. In: JONES, R.H., ed., Discourse and creativity Pearson.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2012. 'Textual analysis and stylistics'. In: D. CLAYTON, ed., Language: A Student Handbook on Key Topics and Theories English and Media Centre. 150-62
  • STOCKWEL, P., 2012. Babel. 8-11
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2011. 'Changing minds in narrative' Style. 45(2), 299-91
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2011. 'Authenticity and creativity in reading lamentation'. In: J. SWANN, R. POPE and R. CARTER, eds., Creativity in Language Palgrave. 203-16
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2011. 'Accommodating identity in cognitive sociolinguistics' Cahiers du CEL: Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques, Lyon. 13-33
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2011. Cognitive Poetics (Arabic translation) (Trans. Salwa Nugali). King Saud University Press.
  • MULLANY, L. and STOCKWELL, P., 2010. Introducing English Language: A Resource Book for Students Routledge.
  • JACKSON, H. AND STOCKWELL, P, 2010. An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language Second edition. Continuum.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2010. 'Review: Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William Leap's Introducing Sociolinguistics (EUP, 2009)' Journal of Sociolinguistics. 13(5), 698-701
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2010. 'Cognitive poetics'. In: HOGAN, P.C., ed., Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences Cambridge University Press. 169-71
  • STOCKWELL, P.J., 2010. The eleventh checksheet of the apocalypse. In: MCINTYRE, D. and BUSSE, B., eds., Language and style: in honour of Mick Short Palgrave Macmillan.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2010. 'Humanity and the art of literary linguistics' Acta Linguistica Hafniensis: International Journal of Linguistics. 42(1), 103-16
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2010. 'Language, knowledge and the stylistics of science fiction'. In: J. KRSTOVIC, ed., Short Story Criticism Gale Cengage. 242-9
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2009. Texture: a cognitive aesthetics of reading Edinburgh University Press.
  • LLAMAS, C. and P. STOCKWELL, 2009. 'Sociolinguistics'. In: N. SCHMITT, ed., An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (second edition). Arnold.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2009. Language and Cognition. 1(1), 25-44
  • CARTER, R.A. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2008. The Language and Literature Reader Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2008. 'Situating cognitive approaches to narrative analysis'. In: G. BRONE and J. VANDAELE, eds., Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains and Gaps Mouton de Gruyter. 119-23
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2008. 'Kognitivna poetika a literarna teoria': (Slovak translation of 'Cognitive poetics and literary theory (2007)' Slovak Review of World Literature Research. 17, 51-66
  • CARTER, R. and STOCKWELL, P., 2008. 'Stylistics: retrospect and prospect'. In: R. CARTER and P. STOCKWELL, eds., The Language and Literature Reader Routledge. 291-302
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2008. Language and Literature. 17(4), 351-63
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2008. 'Cartographies of cognitive poetics' Pragmatics and Cognition. 16(3), 587-98
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2008. 'Review: Dan McIntyre's Point of View in Plays (Benjamins, 2006)' Language and Literature. 17(1), 99-101
  • LLAMAS, C., MULLANY, L. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2007. The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics London: Routledge.
  • LAMBROU, M. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2007. Contemporary Stylistics Continuum.
  • STOCKWELL, P. and TRASK, L., 2007. Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts (3rd edition). Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2007. Sociolinguistics 2nd edition. Routledge.
  • LLAMAS, C., MULLANY, L. and STOCKWELL, P., 2007. 'Introduction'. In: C. LLAMAS, L. MULLANY and P. STOCKWELL, eds., The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics Routledge. xv-xviii
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2007. 'Cognitive poetics and literary theory' Journal of Literary Theory. 1(1), 135-52
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2006. 'On teaching literature itself'. In: G. WATSON and S. ZYNGIER, eds., Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners Palgrave. 15-24
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2006. 'On cognitive poetics and stylistics'. In: H. VEIVO, B. PETTERSSON and M. POLVINEN, eds., Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice University of Helsinki Press. 267-82
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2006. Poetyka Kognitywna: Wprowadzenie (Polish translation of Cognitive Poetics, by Edyta Podolska-Frej). Towarzystwo Autorow i Wydawcow Prac Naukowych Universitas.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2006. Cognitive Poetics (Japanese translation) (trans. Sigeko Uchida). Tuttle-Mori.
  • ROBSON, M. and STOCKWELL, P., 2005. Language in Theory Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2005. 'Texture and identification' European Journal of English Studies. 9(2), 143-53
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2005. 'Invented language in literature'. In: K. BROWN, ed., The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition). Elsevier. 3-10
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2005. 'Schema theory: stylistic applications'. In: K. BROWN, ed., The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition). Elsevier. 8-13
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2005. 'Stylistics: language and literature'. In: B. AARTS and A. MCMAHON, eds., The Handbook of English Linguistics Blackwell. 742-58
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2004. 'Surrealist narrative'. In: D. HERMAN, M. JAHN and M-L. RYAN, eds., Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2004. 'Science fiction'. In: D. HERMAN, M. JAHN and M-L. RYAN, eds., Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2003. 'Review: Linda Thomas and Sian Wareing's Language, Society and Power (Routledge, 1999)' Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2003. 'Schema poetics and speculative cosmology' Language and Literature. 12(3), 252-71
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2003. 'Surreal figures'. In: J. GAVINS and G. STEEN, eds., Cognitive Poetics in Practice Routledge. 13-25
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2002. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2002. Sociolinguistics Routledge.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2002. 'A stylistics manifesto'. In: S. CSABI and J. ZERKOWITZ, eds., Textual Secrets: The Message of the Medium ELTE Press.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2002. 'Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading'. In: J. CULPEPER and E. SEMINO, eds., Cognitive Stylistics Benjamins. 73-94
  • LLAMAS, C. and STOCKWELL, P., 2002. 'Sociolinguistics'. In: N. SCHMITT, ed., An Introduction to Applied Linguistics Arnold. 150-69
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2001. 'Teaching the future' The English Teacher. 4(2), 3-17
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2000. The Poetics of Science Fiction Longman.
  • BEX, T., BURKE, M. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 2000. Contextualized Stylistics Rodopi.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2000. 'Futuretalk: one small step towards a chronolinguistics' Nottingham Linguistic Circular. 15, 55-68
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2000. '(Sur)real stylistics: from text to contextualizing'. In: T. BEX, M. BURKE and P. STOCKWELL, eds., Contextualized Stylistics Rodopi. 15-39
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2000. 'Review: Cameron and Lowe's Researching and Applying Metaphor (Cambridge University Press, 1999)' Metaphor and Symbol. 4, 275-7
  • STOCKWELL, P., 2000. 'Towards a critical cognitive linguistics?'. In: A. COMBRINK and I. BIERMANN, eds., Discourses of War and Conflict Potchefstroom University Press. 510-28
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1999. 'The inflexibility of invariance' Language and Literature. 8(2), 125-42
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1999. 'Review: Michael Toolan's Total Speech (Duke University Press, 1996)' Language and Literature. 8(1), 78-81
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1997. 'Review: Lesley Jeffries' The Language of Twentieth Century Poetry (Macmillan, 1993) Language and Literature. 6(1),
  • JACKSON, H. and STOCKWELL, P., 1996. An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language Stanley Thornes.
  • LITTLEWOOD, D. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 1996. Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity, Extrapolation, Speculation Rodopi.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1996. 'New wor(l)ds' UCE Papers in Language and Literature. 3,
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1995. 'Review: Carter and McCarthy's Language as Discourse (Longman, 1994)' Language and Literature. 4(1),
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1994. 'How to create universes with words: referentiality and science fictionality' Journal of Literary Semantics. 23(3), 159-87
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1994. 'Bad language: towards a poetics of ineptitude' UCE Papers in Language and Literature. 1, 47-57
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1994. 'To be or not to be a phagocyte: procedures of reading metaphors'. In: R. SELL and P. VERDONK, eds., Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity: Poetics, Linguistics, History Rodopi. 65-78
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1992. 'The metaphorics of literary reading' Liverpool Papers in Language and Discourse. 4, 52-80
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1992. 'George and the big Baghdad dragon: metaphors of the Gulf War' Liverpool Papers in Language and Discourse. 3,
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1992. 'Do androids dream of electric sheep? Isomorphic relations in reading science fiction' Language and Literature. 1(2), 79-99
  • SHAW, P. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., 1991. Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day: Creating the Self Pinter.
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1991. 'Language, knowledge and the stylistics of science fiction'. In: P. SHAW and P. STOCKWELL, eds., Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day Frances Pinter. 101-12
  • STOCKWELL, P., 1990. 'Scripts, frames and nuclear discourse in the Washington superpower summit, December 1987' Liverpool Papers in Language and Discourse. 2, 18-39

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