Dr. Ernestine Lahey Linguistics and Stylistics P.O. Box 94 NL-4330 AB Middelburg Office hours: by appointment Tel. 0118-655500 / fax 0118-655508 E-mail:

Profile

Ernestine Lahey is a lecturer in Linguistics and Stylistics. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Nottingham, U.K. Her thesis focused on a Text World Theory examination of landscape representation in the works of Canadian poets Al Purdy, Milton Acorn and Alden Nowlan, and discussed the ways in which landscape has been linked in English Canada to notions of national and cultural identity. She has taught in the UK at the University of Nottingham, the Open University, and Sheffield Hallam University, and in Canada at Saint Mary’s University and Mount Saint Vincent University. She is the publicity officer for the international Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Her fields of teaching and research expertise include stylistics, cognitive stylistics/poetics, Text World Theory, descriptive linguistics, discourse analysis, composition and rhetoric, and English-Canadian literature and culture.

Publications

• ‘Seeing the forest for the trees in Al Purdy’s “Trees at the Arctic Circle.”’ BELL: Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures. ns 1 (2003): 73-83.
• ‘All the world’s a subworld: direct speech and subworld creation in Norman MacCaig’s “After.”’ Nottingham Linguistic Circular 18 (2004): 21-28.
• ‘(Re)thinking world-building: locating the text-worlds of Canadian lyric poetry.’ Journal of Literary Semantics 35.2 (2006).
• 'Megametaphorical Mappings and the Landscapes of Canadian Poetry', in Contemporary Stylistics. Ed. M. Lambrou and P. Stockwell (London: Continuum, 2007), pp. 157-167.
• Review of The City of Words, by Alberto Manguel. Language and Literature 17 (2008): 385-387.

Forthcoming

• Review of The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (In press).
• Cognitive Stylistics in Practice (with Dr. Michael Burke). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press (2009).

Research Projects

Dr. Lahey is currently preparing a textbook with Dr. Michael Burke on cognitive stylistics, for publication in 2009. She is also engaged in continuing research on the subjects of literary landscape representation and English-Canadian literature.

Courses

• ACC 120 Introduction to Rhetoric & Argumentation
• ACC 220 Stylistics
• A&H 126 Introduction to English Linguistics
• A&H 225 Sociolinguistics
• A&H 326 Linguistic Theories & Linguistic Practice