Publications
i) books
Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
co-edited with Dr. Christopher Routledge
Edinburgh University Press, to be published in 2009
Language and Empiricism, After the Vienna Circle
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2008
Thinking about Language: Theories of English
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2006
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
co-edited with Dr. Christopher Routledge
Edinburgh University Press, 2005
Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2005
Philosophy for Linguists
Routledge, London, 2000
Accent in Context
Peter Lang AG, Berne, 1998
ii) journal articles
‘“Meaning”: philosophical forebears and linguistic descendants’
Teorema
volume XXVI/2, 2007, pp59-75
‘Reading “great books”: non truth-committed discourse and silly novel readers’
(subscription or ATHENS password required for this link)
in collaboration with Dr Christopher Routledge
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Oxford University Press
volume xxxix, 2003, pp1-14
‘“ From their point of view”: voice and speech in George Moore’s Esther Waters’
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Language and Literature, Sage Publications, London
volume 11, 2002, pp307-323
‘In defence of a code: linguistic meaning and propositionality in verbal communication’
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Journal of Pragmatics , Elsevier Science
volume 33, October 2001, pp1553-1570
‘The pragmatics of detection: Paul Auster’s City of Glass’
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in collaboration with Dr Christopher Routledge
Language and Literature, Sage Publications, London
volume 8, October 1999, pp241-253
‘Some observations on metalinguistic negation’
Journal of Linguistics , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
number 32, September 1996, pp387-402
‘Utterance accent: a representational approach’
Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics.
volume 2, 1994
‘Metalinguistic negation, sentences and utterances’
Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics .
volume 1, 1993, pp74-94
iii) conference papers
‘“Wherof one cannot speak”: philosophical asides on literature’
Plenary lecture at the national meeting of the Poetics and Linguistics Association.
University of Huddersfield, May 2007.
‘Pragmatics and Literature’
Tutorial at the International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric
University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain, November 2005.
‘Reading Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation‘.
in collaboration with Dr Christopher Routledge
Paper read at the international conference of the Poetics and Applied Linguistics Association.
University of Huddersfield, July 2005
‘Jane’s deceit: seeing through genre in Northanger Abbey’
in collaboration with Dr Christopher Routledge
Paper read at the international conference of the Poetics and Applied Linguistics Association.
Goldsmiths College, July 2000
‘Utterance accent: a representational approach’
Paper read at the autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
Middlesex University, September 1994
iv) other
I have written contributions on ‘Reductionism’ and ‘Relativism’ to Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Oxford: Elsevier (2006).
I have written contributions on ‘Ayer’, ‘Grice’, ‘Leibniz’, ‘Morris’, ‘Ramsey’, ‘Ryle’ and ‘Strawson’ in Chapman and Routledge (eds.) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh University Press (2005).
I have written contributions to The Literary Encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com (‘Austin’ and ‘Grice’, 2003)
I have reviewed books for Language and Literature (1997, 1998), Journal of Linguistics (1998), Journal of Literary Semantics (2006), The Time Higher Education Supplement (2006) and Discourse and Communication (2007).
