Sandrine Sorlin
Présentation
Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English language and linguistics. Previously at Aix-Marseille University (from 2013 to 2018), she is now a professor at University Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 (where she was a senior lecturer from 2007 to 2013). She is the current chair of the Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (SAES). She is an honorary junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2012-2017) and a senior member (2024-2029). Specialized in stylistics and pragmatics, she has published books on linguistic defamiliarisation in English literature (La Défamiliarisation linguistique dans le roman anglais contemporain, PULM, 2010) and on language and authority in a historical perspective (Langage et autorité: de l’ordre linguistique à la force dialogique, PUR, 2012). She is also the author of a handbook of stylistics (La Stylistique anglaise. Théories et Pratiques, PUR, 2014), the co-editor of The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns with Laure Gardelle (John Benjamins, 2015*)* and The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter with Manuel Jobert (John Benjamins, 2018) She published a monograph on an American political TV series (Language and Manipulation in House of Cards*: A Pragma-Stylistic Perspective*, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) for which she received an award from the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE book award 2018). She edited a book on Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020) and co-edited with Virginie Iché The Rhetoric of Literary Communication. From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction with Routledge (2022). In 2024, she co-edited The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy (John Benjamins) with Tuija Virtanen and Style and Sense(s) (Palgrave) with Linda Pillière. Her latest monograph brings together her interests in personal pronouns and addresses to readers. It is entitled The Stylistics of 'You'. Second-Person Pronoun and Its Pragmatic Effects and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She chaired the Société de Stylistique Anglaise (http://stylistique-anglaise.org/home/) from 2015 to 2019 and then co-chaired it until 2021. She was editor-in-chief of Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise during that period*.* She is currently Assistant Editor of Language and Literature. International Journal of Stylistics.
Publications
Publications
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Implicit Manipulation in Brexit “Vote Leave” Campaign LeafletsEMMAncipons les Savoirs - Journée organisée par EMMA en partenariat avec le Rectorat de Montpellier à l'adresse des enseignant.e.s du secondaire, Apr 2024, Montpellier, France |
Transmission through pronominal displacement in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Tomorrow is too Far” (2009)Atelier de la Société de Stylistique et de l’Analyse des Discours Anglophones (SSADA), Congrès de la SAES, Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, Jun 2023, Rennes, France |
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The Pragmatics of HypocrisyInternational Pragmatics Association, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jul 2023, Bruxelles, Belgium |
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How to do things with … implicitnessImplicit Manipulation in Public Discourse : Quantitative and qualitative approaches, Università Roma Tre, Apr 2023, Rome, Italy. https://oppp.it/evento/international-conference-implicit-manipulation-in-public-discourse-quantitative-and-qualitative-approaches-2/ |
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The stylistic features of the second-person pronoun in EnglishROLLS, Research On Language and Linguistics at Sussex, Justyna Robinson (University of Sussex), Mar 2022, Brighton, United Kingdom |
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“‘you’ as a stylistic vector of otherness: from self-ascription to enactment. Kincaid (1988), Adichie (2009), Azumah Nelson (2021)Aston Stylistics Research Group Seminar Series (online), Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University), Feb 2022, Aston, United Kingdom |
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How pragmatically (in)definite are ‘you’ and ‘one’? Presentations of self and other in George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) as case studyFestschrift for Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhiem, Aino Tuomola & Brita Warvik (Åbo Akademi), Jun 2022, Turku, Finland |
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TV Series and Research in Pragmatics: From the Discipline to the Object and Back. Humans (Channel 4 2015-2018) as case studyRethinking disciplines with TV series : an epistemological perspective, Apr 2022, Montpellier, France. https://tvseries-discip.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en |
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The Ethical Relationality of ‘You’Communication au département d’anglais de l’Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik (Department of Historical Poetics, online), Mar 2022, Warsaw, Poland |
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‘I concede NOTHING’ : Donald Trump’s discourse of denial on Twitter, leading thousands to the CapitolPoetics and Linguistics Association, University of Nottingham, Jul 2021, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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De la necéssité de la contre-interpellationInterpellation / contre-interpellation : Penser l’émancipation par le langage, Cécile Canut et al, Université Paris Descartes, Oct 2021, Paris, France |
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A plea for hypocrisy: pragma-philosophical considerationsInternational Pragmatics Association, University of Winterthur, Jun 2021, Winterthur, Switzerland |
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Manipulative and dysfunctional deixis in Spacey’s ‘Let Me Be Frank’ YouTube video (2018)Stylistics Research Group, Jan 2021, Sheffield - UK, United Kingdom |
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Stylistic reading as ‘performative embodiment’: The traumatic ending of Jim Grimsley’s Winter Birds (1992)Powerful Literary Texts. A Stylistic, Empirical and Performance-based Approach, Oct 2020, Paris (en ligne), France. https://p-lit.org/online-conference-2020/ |
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Shakespeare's Richard III and Lady Macbeth transfigured and transmediated as Frank and Claire Underwood in House of Cards (Netflix 2013-2018): Linguistic, aesthetic and ethical considerationsShakespeare on Screen in the Digital Era, Sep 2019, Montpellier, France |
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Knowing pragmatics can get you in the Oval Office: manipulative skills in House of Cards (Netflix 2013-2018)Invitated by Prof. Didier Maillat, University of Fribourg, Mar 2019, Fribourg, Switzerland |
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Pragmatics in the discourse of TV dramaPragmatics and Literature, University of Sussex, Feb 2019, Brighton (UK), France |
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‘You’ across and without bordersPoetics and Linguistics Association, University of Liverpool, Jul 2019, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
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Kiran Desai's Inventive Italics"Inventive Linguistics", Interdisciplinary International Conference, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 11-13 mars 2009, 2009, Montpellier, France |
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Restructuring Linguistic HistoryThe Third International William Golding Conference "Digging for Picture", Amiens, 13-14 mars 2008, 2008, Amiens, France |
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How pragmatically (in)definite are you and one? Pronominal imposture in George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta, Brita Wårvik (eds). Structures in Discourse: Interaction, Adaptability, and Pragmatic Functions, vol. 345 de Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, John Benjamins, pp.36-57, 2024, 9027246823, 9789027246820 |
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Chapter 2. A pragmatic model of hypocrisyThe Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, 343, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.15-42, 2024, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9789027214614. ⟨10.1075/pbns.343.02sor⟩ |
Introduction: Enacting Style and Sense(s)Linda Pillière; Sandrine Sorlin. Style and Sense(s), Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, 978-3-031-54883-3. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-54884-0⟩ |
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A plea for hypocrisy: pragma-philosophical considerationsS. Sorlin & T. Virtanen (eds). The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, 343, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.231-253, 2024, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9789027214614. ⟨10.1075/pbns.343.10sor⟩ |
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Chapter 1. Theorising the 'You EffectsCambridge University Press. The Stylistics of You. Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects, 2022, ⟨10.1017/9781108966757.002⟩ |
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Introduction: Addressing ReadersThe Rhetoric of Literary Communication. From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction, Routledge, pp.2-22, 2022 |
Introduction: Manipulation in fictionStylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, ⟨10.5040/9781350062993.0005⟩ |
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Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard DivideStandardising English. Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language, 1, Cambridge University Press, pp.22-42, 2018, ⟨10.1017/9781108120470.002⟩ |
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Chapter 10. The Rolling Stones promoting Monty Python: The power of irony and banterJohn Benjamins. The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, 30, pp.195-20, 2018, Linguistic Approaches to Literature, ⟨10.1075/lal.30.10sor⟩ |
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Personal pronouns: An expositionLaure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin. The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, John Benjamins Publishing, pp.1-24, 2015, 9789027259363. ⟨10.1075/slcs.171.01gar⟩ |
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Le genre : ligne de force de la théorie et de la pratique littéraire ?Driss Ablali, Ayoub Bouhouhou et Ouidad Tebbaa Les genres textuels, une question d’interprétation ? , Lambert-Lucas, pp.103-112, 2015 |
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Stylistic techniques and ethical staging in Otavia Butler's 'Speech SoundsMaylis Rospide and Sandrine Sorlin. The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity. New Perspectives on Genre Literature , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.82-94, 2015 |
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Breaking the fourth wall: The pragmatics of the second person pronoun in House of CardsLaure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin. The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns , John Benjamins Publishing, pp.125-145, 2015, 9789027259363 |
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The power of impoliteness: a historical perspectiveDenis Jamet and Manuel Jobert. Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.45-58, 2013 |
Quand l’étrangisation linguistique rime avec stérilité : La langue des Vril-ya (XIXe), le Newspeak (XXe), le Mokni & l’Arpee (XXIe siècles)Yves Clavaron. L’Étrangeté des langues, Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, pp.143-152, 2011 |
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From the Universal Philosophical langues to the Language of ChemistryGerda Hassler. Nationale und transnationale Perspektiven der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Nodus Publikationen, pp.249-256, 2011 |
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Le scandale linguistique selon Walker PercySandrine Sorlin. L'art du langage : fragments anglo-américains, 4, Michel Houdiard éd., pp.175-184, 2011 |
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Inventedness" and Inventiveness: for a Postmodern LinguisticsSandrine Sorlin. Inventive Linguistics, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp.85-94, 2010 |
Twentieth-Century Linguistic DystopiasJean-Michel Ganteau; Christine Reynier. Autonomy and Commitment : in twentieth-century British literature, 5, PULM (Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée), pp.203-211, 2010 |
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A Clockwork OrangeMarc Jeannin. Anthony Burgess : music in literature and literature in music, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.45-56, 2010 |
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Euphémisme et idéologieSous la direction de Denis Jamet et Manuel Jobert. Empreintes de l'euphémisme : tours et détours, L'Harmattan, pp.95-105, 2010 |
Les meilleurs romans anglais depuis 1939Etudes des pays anglophones (Montpellier). La tradition littéraire dans les essais anglo-américains, M. Houdiard, pp.52-60, 2009 |
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Jean-Jacques Lecercle : Interpretation as Pragmatics, New York, St Martin’s Press, 19992023, ⟨10.4000/erea.16604⟩ |
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‘Stylistics will never become boring’2022, pp.495 - 507. ⟨10.1177/09639470221134380⟩ |
Review of John Pier, (ed.), Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology. Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2020.2021, pp.179-183. ⟨10.1515/jls-2021-2037⟩ |
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Is ‘you’ the pronoun of address par excellence?2021, https://babelzine.co.uk/store-2/babel-issue-36/ |