Chapters and articles

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Book chapters

‘Translation, Uncertainty, and the Spirit of Trust,’ in Killian Schindler and Julia Straub (eds), Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 44), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2024, pp. 83-102. Available at: https://doi.org/10.33675/SPELL/2024/44/9

‘Silver linings without clouds: the innocuousness of widespread idioms’ in T. N. Fedulenkova (ed.), Modern Phraseology Issues: Festschrift for Elizabeth Piirainen. Arkhangelsk: Solti, 2018.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329755023_Silver_linings_without_clouds_the_innocuousness_of_widespread_idioms

‘Introduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature’ (with Martin A. Kayman), Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature. London & New York: Routledge, 2017.

‘Multicompetence and English as a lingua franca,’ in Vivian Cook and Li Wei (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multicompetence. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

‘Fair play to them: Proficiency in English and types of borrowing,’ in C. Furiassi, V. Pulcini & F. Rodríguez González (eds.), The Anglicization of European Lexis. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012

‘Introduction: English studies and intercultural negotiations,’ in Ian MacKenzie (ed.). Intercultural Negotiations. London & New York: Routledge, 2011

‘Negotiating Europe’s lingua franca,’ in Ian MacKenzie (ed.). Intercultural Negotiations. London & New York: Routledge, 2011

‘Poetry and formulaic language,’ in Christine Michaux & Marc Dominicy (eds), Linguistic Approaches to Poetry. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003

‘When Lucy ceas’d to be: Optimally and manifestly relevant meanings,’ in Lukas Erne and Guillemette Bolens (eds), The Limits of Textuality (Swiss Papers in Language and Literature 13) Tübingen: Gunther Narr, 2000

Articles

‘Translatability, interpretation, and construals of experience,’ Parallèles 31(1) (2019)

https://www.paralleles.unige.ch/fr/tous-les-numeros/numero-31-1/mackenzie/

‘Introduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature’ (with Martin A. Kayman), European Journal of English Studies 16:1 (2016)

‘ELF and Esperanto: Reply to Fiedler,’ Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 4:2 (2015)

‘Will English as a lingua franca impact on native English?’ Varieng: Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 16 (2015) 

‘Rethinking reader and writer responsibility in academic English,’ Applied Linguistics Review 6:1 (2015)

‘Lexical creativity: cromulently embiggening a language,’ Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses / Alicante Journal of English Studies 27 (2014)

‘As if: truth and fiction in translation theory,’ Parallèles 26 (2014)

https://www.paralleles.unige.ch/fr/tous-les-numeros/numero-26/mackenzie/

ELF and the alternatives,’ Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 3:2 (2014)

‘Lexical inventiveness and conventionality in English as a lingua franca and English translations,’ European English Messenger 22:1 (2013)

‘English as a lingua franca in Europe: bilingualism and multicompetence,’ International Journal of Multilingualism 9:1 (2012)

‘Introduction: English studies and intercultural negotiations,’ European Journal of English Studies 13:2 (2009)

‘Negotiating Europe’s lingua franca,’ European Journal of English Studies 13:2 (2009)

‘English as a lingua franca and European universities,’ European English Messenger 12:1 (2003)

‘Body language: the kinaesthetics of thought,’ Etudes de Lettres 2001:4

‘Improvisation, creativity, and formulaic language,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58:2 (2000)

‘Institutionalized utterances, literature, and language teaching,’ Language and Literature 9:1 (2000)

‘Relevance and writing,’ Journal of Literary Semantics 24:2 (1995)

‘Pragmatism, rhetoric and history,’ Poetics Today 16:2 (1995)

‘Terrible beauty: Paul de Man’s retreat from the aesthetic,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51:4 (1993)

‘Marx on value: Irony, dialogue and the aesthetic ideology,’ Southern Review 24:2 (1991)

‘Author, text, reader and community,’ Journal of Literary Semantics 19:2 (1990)

‘Tom Stoppard: The monological imagination,’ Modern Drama 32:4 (1989)

‘Men who don’t wear slippers: Why do people read detective stories?’ London Magazine 29:1 (1989)

‘Le texte, le lecteur et la référence,’ Cahiers du Département des langues et des sciences de langage, Lausanne 7 (1988)

‘Theories of reading: Carvers and modellers,’ American Imago 44:4 (1987)

‘Narratology and thematics,’ Modern Fiction Studies 33:3 (1987)

‘Wittgenstein and aesthetic responses,’ Philosophy and Literature 11:1 (1987)

‘Gadamer’s hermeneutics and the uses of forgery,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45:1 (1986)

‘Who’s afraid of James Joyce? or Flann O’Brien’s retreat from modernism,’ Etudes de Lettres 1983:1

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