Daniel McIntyre
Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Department of English
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 49
- E-mail:
- dan.mcintyre@engelska.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 L
- Postal address:
- Box 527
751 20 Uppsala
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Short presentation
I hold the Chair in English Language in the Department of English at Uppsala University. My research interests are in stylistics, corpus linguistics and the history of the English language.
Biography
I studied for my BA, MA and PhD degrees in linguistics at Lancaster University, UK and before I did my PhD I taught English as a foreign language in northern Italy. I hold a docentship in English Language from the University of Eastern Finland and a docentship in English from Uppsala University. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE, UK) and I was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2025.
I co-edit the book series Advances in Stylistics for Bloomsbury and am the co-founder and co-editor of Babel: The Language Magazine.
My most recent book is the second edition of Stylistics (Cambridge University Press, 2025; with Lesley Jeffries), a general introduction to the field of stylistics, now updated to include comprehensive coverage of the whole discipline.

Publications
Selection of publications
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Cambridge University Press, 2025
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Part of Journal of Pragmatics, p. 16-36, 2025
- DOI for Can ChatGPT recognize impoliteness? An exploratory study of the pragmatic awareness of a large language model
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Part of The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation, p. 411-433, Routledge, 2024
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What the /fʌk/?: An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a scene from The Wire
Part of Pragmatics and Literature, p. 73-91, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019
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Corpus Stylistics: Theory and Practice
Edinburgh University Press, 2019
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The devil has all the best tunes: An investigation of the lexical phenomenon of Brexit
Part of Rethinking Language, Text and Context, p. 100-119, Routledge, 2018
Recent publications
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Part of International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, p. 1-8, Elsevier, 2026
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'Truth is ugly': style, structure and tone in 'Swansong'
Part of Style as Motivated Choice, p. 80-92, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025
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Cambridge University Press, 2025
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Stylistics for applied linguistics
Part of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, p. 1-4, Elsevier, 2025
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Part of Journal of Pragmatics, p. 16-36, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Journal of Pragmatics, p. 16-36, 2025
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From stats to style: Changes in the writing life of W. B. Yeats
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 18-23, 2022
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Part of Language and Literature, p. 469-484, 2022
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30 years of Language and Literature
Part of Language and Literature, p. 465-468, 2022
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Part of Language and Literature, p. 485-494, 2022
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‘‘Whose go is it?’ Designing a language-based board game: An interview with Joshua Blackburn
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 26-27, 2021
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The art of making a good impression
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 18-23, 2021
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Screentest: The Professor and the Madman
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 46-47, 2020
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Part of Corpora, p. 275-299, 2019
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Creative linguistic impoliteness as aggression in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
Part of Journal of literary semantics, p. 43-65, 2018
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Text-world annotation and visualization for crime narrative reconstruction
Part of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, p. 310-334, 2018
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Part of English Text Construction, p. 286-317, 2018
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Towards an integrated corpus stylistics
Part of Topics in Linguistics, p. 59-68, 2015
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Part of Perspectives, p. 62-88, 2014
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Language and style in David Peace’s 1974: A corpus-informed analysis
Part of Etudes de stylistique anglaise, p. 133-146, 2013
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Prototypical characteristics of blockbuster movie dialogue: A corpus stylistic analysis
Part of Texas Studies in Language and Literature, p. 402-425, 2012
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A case for corpus stylistics: Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale
Part of English Text Construction, p. 204-227, 2011
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Discourse presentation in Early Modern English writing: A preliminary corpus-based investigation
Part of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, p. 101-130, 2011
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John McGahern’s stylistic and narratological art
Part of Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2010
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A corpus-based approach to mind style
Part of Journal of literary semantics, p. 167-182, 2010
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A corpus-based approach to mind style
Part of Journal of literary semantics, p. 167-182, 2010
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Part of Language and Literature, p. 309-334, 2008
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Implementing and evaluating a self-assessment mechanism for the web-based Language and Style course
Part of Language and Literature, p. 291-306, 2006
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Logic, reality and mind style in Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van
Part of Journal of literary semantics, p. 21-40, 2005
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Part of ICAME Journal/International Computer Archive of Modern English, p. 49-76, 2004
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Point of view in drama: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle
Part of Language and Literature, p. 139-160, 2004
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Using foregrounding theory as a teaching methodology in a stylistics course
Part of Style, p. 1-13, 2003
Articles, review/survey
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The year's work in stylistics 2013
Part of Language and Literature, p. 389-341, 2014
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The year's work in stylistics 2012
Part of Language and Literature, p. 333-347, 2013
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The year's work in stylistics 2011
Part of Language and Literature, p. 402-415, 2012
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The year’s work in stylistics 2010
Part of Language and Literature, p. 347-364, 2011
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The year’s work in stylistics 2009
Part of Language and Literature, p. 396-411, 2010
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Review of Sinclair & Carter ((2004)): Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse
Part of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, p. 563-575, 2007
Books
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Cambridge University Press, 2025
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Cambridge University Press, 2022
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History of English: A Resource Book for Students
Routledge, 2020
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Corpus Stylistics: Theory and Practice
Edinburgh University Press, 2019
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Cambridge University Press, 2010
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History of English: A Resource Book for Students
Routledge, 2009
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Point of View in Plays: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Viewpoint in Drama and Other Text-types
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006
Chapters in book
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Part of International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, p. 1-8, Elsevier, 2026
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'Truth is ugly': style, structure and tone in 'Swansong'
Part of Style as Motivated Choice, p. 80-92, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025
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Stylistics for applied linguistics
Part of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, p. 1-4, Elsevier, 2025
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Part of The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation, p. 411-433, Routledge, 2024
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Engaging the public and enriching language education through Babel: The Language Magazine
Part of Communicating Linguistics, p. 49-59, Routledge, 2023
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Part of Communicating Linguistics, p. 3-13, Routledge, 2023
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Using corpus linguistics to explore the language of poetry: A stylometric approach to Yeats’s poems
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, p. 499-516, Routledge, 2022
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Pedagogical corpus stylistics: Teaching style and register variation to EAP students
Part of Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century, p. 75-104, Springer, 2022
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Stylistics: Studying literary and everyday style in English
Part of The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies, p. 327-344, Routledge, 2022
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What the /fʌk/?: An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a scene from The Wire
Part of Pragmatics and Literature, p. 73-91, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019
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Assessing the value of research in linguistics
Part of Applying Linguistics, p. 3-14, Routledge, 2018
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Linguistics, language and the impact agenda
Part of Applying Linguistics, p. 3-14, Routledge, 2018
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The devil has all the best tunes: An investigation of the lexical phenomenon of Brexit
Part of Rethinking Language, Text and Context, p. 100-119, Routledge, 2018
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Irony and semantic prosody revisited
Part of The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, p. 81-99, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018
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(Im)politeness in fictional texts
Part of The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness, p. 759-783, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
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Part of Teaching Literature, p. 155-172, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
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Dialogue: Credibility versus realism in fictional speech
Part of The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics, p. 430-443, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
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Thinking about the news: Thought presentation in Early Modern English
Part of Corpora and Discourse Studies, p. 175-191, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Part of Exploring Language and Linguistics, p. 245-273, Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Part of The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics, p. 149-164, Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Part of Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, p. 1182-1187, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
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Context, cognition, discourse, history: Peter Verdonk’s stylistics of poetry
Part of The Stylistics of Poetry, p. 1-9, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
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Corpus stylistics in the classroom
Part of Current Trends in Pedagogical Stylistics, p. 113-125, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
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Annotating a corpus of Early Modern English writing for categories of discourse presentation
Part of Unité et diversité de la linguistique, p. 87-107, Atelier intégré de publication de l’Université Jean Moulin, 2012
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The place of stylistics in the English curriculum
Part of Teaching Stylistics, p. 9-29, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Processes of interpretation: Using meta-analysis to inform pedagogic practice
Part of Teaching Stylistics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Emotion and empathy in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas: A case study of the “funny guy” scene
Part of Telecinematic Discourse, p. 105-123, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011
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How can corpora be used to explore the language of poetry and drama?
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, p. 516-530, Routledge, 2010
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Dialogue and characterisation in Quentin Tarantino's Resevoir Dogs
Part of Language and Style, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Activity types and characterisation in dramatic discourse
Part of Characters in Fictional Worlds, p. 176-207, Mouton de Gruyter, 2010
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Languauge, literature and stylistics
Part of Language and Style, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Activity types, incongruity and humour in dramatic discourse
Part of Language and Style, p. 204-224, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Deixis, cognition and the construction of viewpoint
Part of Contemporary Stylistics, p. 118-130, Continuum, 2007
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Part of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, p. 772-785, Elsevier, 2006
Collections (editor)
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Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement
Routledge, 2023
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Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda
Routledge, 2018
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Language and Style: In Honour of Mick Short
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Stylistics and Social Cognition
Rodopi, 2007
Conference papers
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2024
- DOI for Formulaic language in Early English Books Online: From computational linguistics to classical rhetoric
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(Im)politeness, fiction and film: Exploring interpersonal relations through cinema
2023
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Characterising sustainability requirements: A new species, red herring, or just an odd fish?
Part of 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, p. 3-12, 2017
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The Visualisation of Cognitive Structures in Forensic Statements
Part of Proceedings of iV2016, p. 106-111, 2016
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2013
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Subtitling and characterisation (Plenary)
2013
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Part of Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 Conference, p. 513-522, 2003
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Viewpoint and characterisation in Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle
Part of Textual Secrets: The Message of the Medium, p. 423-429, 2002
Other
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Literally: Amazing Words and Where They Come From by Patrick Skipworth
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 46-47, 2021
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The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 22-22, 2019
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The Story of English by Philip Gooden
Part of Babel: The Language Magazine, p. 22-22, 2012
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Part of Language and Literature, p. 92-94, 2009
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The Language of Work by Almut Koester
Part of Language and Literature, p. 273-276, 2008
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Structure and Meaning in Conversation and Literature by Raymond F. Person, Jr.
Part of Language and Literature, p. 271-273, 2001