Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. She is the author of Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (1997), and co-editor (with Jonathan Culpetter) of Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis (2002). Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University. He has written Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (1997) and (with Geoffrey Leech) Style in Fiction (1997). He founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association and was the founding editor of its international journal, Language and Literature.

• 1. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Discourse Presentation in Written Narratives  2. Methodology: The Construction and Annotation of the Corpus  3. A Revised Model of Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation  4. Speech Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  5. Writing Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  6. Thought Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  7. Specific Phenomena in Speech, Writing Presentation  8. Case Studies of Specific Texts from the Corpus  9. Conclusion

Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. She is the author of Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (1997), and co-editor (with Jonathan Culpetter) of Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis (2002). Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University. He has written Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (1997) and (with Geoffrey Leech) Style in Fiction (1997). He founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association and was the founding editor of its international journal, Language and Literature.

• 1. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Discourse Presentation in Written Narratives  2. Methodology: The Construction and Annotation of the Corpus  3. A Revised Model of Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation  4. Speech Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  5. Writing Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  6. Thought Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  7. Specific Phenomena in Speech, Writing Presentation  8. Case Studies of Specific Texts from the Corpus  9. Conclusion

Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. She is the author of Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (1997), and co-editor (with Jonathan Culpetter) of Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis (2002). Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University. He has written Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (1997) and (with Geoffrey Leech) Style in Fiction (1997). He founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association and was the founding editor of its international journal, Language and Literature.

• 1. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Discourse Presentation in Written Narratives  2. Methodology: The Construction and Annotation of the Corpus  3. A Revised Model of Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation  4. Speech Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  5. Writing Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  6. Thought Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis  7. Specific Phenomena in Speech, Writing Presentation  8. Case Studies of Specific Texts from the Corpus  9. Conclusion