Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Construing the ‘primitive’ primitively: grammatical parallelism as patterning and positioning strategy in D. H. Lawrence
Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Donna R. Miller [+]
University of Bologna
Donna R. Miller holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna, where she heads the Research Centre for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC). Her research has focused on register analysis in institutional text types, her corpus-assisted investigations exploring the grammar of evaluation in terms of APPRAISAL SYSTEMS. Recently she has been investigating the Hasanian model of ‘verbal art’. She is co-author of Language and Verbal Art Revisited (with Monica Turci, Equinox Publishing, 2007).
Description
Donna R. Miller’s research focuses, in a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective, on text and discourse analysis (often corpus-assisted) and ESP: political, deliberative, juridical and literary varieties principally. In this paper, she investigates the hypnotic rhythmic quality of the style of D. H. Lawrence, beginning with the description/explanation which Lawrence himself had offered.