Publications

Books

  • Jeffries, L., (1993). The Language of Twentieth Century Poetry. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  • Jeffries, L., (1998). Meaning in English: An Introduction to Language Study. Basingstoke : Macmillan.
  • Jeffries, L., (2006) Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jeffries, L., (2007). Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jeffries, L., (2010). Opposition in Discourse. London: Continuum Books.
  • Jeffries, L., (2010). Critical Stylistics: The Power of English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jeffries, L. & McIntyre, D., (2010). Stylistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jeffries, L. & Walker, B. (2017). Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Jeffries, L. (2022). The Language of Contemporary Poetry: a framework for analysis. London: Palgrave.

Edited books

  • Jeffries, L. and Sansom, P., (eds) (2000). Reading Contemporary Poetry: Huddersfield: Smith Doorstop Books.
  • Jeffries, L., McIntyre, D. & Bousfield, D., (eds) (2007). Stylistics and Social Cognition. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Jeffries L. & McIntyre, D. (eds) (2011). Teaching Stylistics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jeffries, L., O’Driscoll, J. & Evans, M. (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict. London: Routledge.

Chapters

  • Jeffries, L. (1994). ‘Language in common: apposition in contemporary poetry by women.’ In Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism, Katie Wales (ed.) Boydell and Brewer 21–50.
  • Jeffries, L., (2000). ‘Point of view and the reader in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy.’ In Jeffries, L. and Sansom, P. (eds) Contemporary poems: some critical approaches. Huddersfield: Smith Doorstop Books, 54-68.
  • Jeffries, L., (2002). ‘Meaning Negotiated. An investigation into Reader and Author meaning.’ In Csábi, S. and Zerkowitz, J. (eds) Textual Secrets. The Message of the Medium. Budapest: Eötvös Lorànd University, 247-261.
  • Jeffries, L., (2007). ‘Journalistic Constructions of Blair’s ‘Apology’ for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War.’  In Johnson, S. and Ensslin, A. (eds) Language in the Media, Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum Books, 48-69.
  • Jeffries, L., (2007). ‘What makes English into Art?’ In Goodman, S., Graddol, D. and Lillis, T. (eds) Redesigning English. London: Routledge, 5-33.
  • Jeffries, L., (2009) ‘The Language of Poems for Children: A Stylistic Case Study.’ In Maybin, J. and Watson, N. (eds) Children’s Literature. Approaches and Territories. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 218-235.
  • Jeffries, L., (2010). ‘‘The Unprofessionals’: Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems’ In McIntyre, D. and Busse, B., (eds) Language and Style. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 95 – 115.
  • Jeffries, L., (2011). ‘‘Radicalisation’ and ‘democracy’: a linguistic analysis of rhetorical change’ In Bryson, V. and Fisher, P. (eds) Redefining social justice. New Labour, rhetoric and reality. Manchester: Manchester University Press 2011: 37–56.
  • Short, M., McIntyre, D., Jeffries, L. & Bousfield, D. (2011). ‘Processes of interpretation: using meta-analysis to inform pedagogic practice.’ In Jeffries, L. and McIntyre, D. (eds) Teaching Stylistics. Teaching the New English. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 69-94.
  • Jeffries, L., (2013) ‘Critical Stylistics’ In Burke, M. (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. London: Routledge, 408 – 420.
  • Jeffries, L., (2014) ‘Interpretation’. InStockwell and Whiteley (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics. Cambridge: C.U.P., 469 – 486. 
  • Jeffries, L., (2015). ‘Language and Ideology’ In Introducing Language and Linguistics. Braber, N., Cummings, L. and Morrish, L., (eds) Cambridge: C.U.P. 379-405.
  • Jeffries, L., (2015). ‘Critical and Cultural Stylistics’ In The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics.  Sotirova, V. (ed) London: Bloomsbury, 157-176.
  • Jeffries, L., (2018). ‘Irony in a theory of textual meaning’ In The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter. Jobert, M. & Sorlin, S. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing, 23-39  (Linguistic Approaches to Literature; vol. 30).
  • Evans, M., Jeffries, L. & O’Driscoll, J. (2018) ‘Language in Conflict: Linguistics in Mediation’, in McIntyre, D. and Price, H. (editors) Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda London: Routledge, pp.124-136
  • Jeffries, L. & McIntyre, D. (2018). ‘The devil has all the best tunes: an investigation of the lexical phenomenon of Brexit’, in Page, R., Busse, B. and Norgaard, N. (eds) Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan, pp. 100-19. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Demmen, J., Jeffries , L. , & Walker , B. ( 2018). Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging . In M. Kranert & G. Horan (Eds.), Doing Politics Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, pp. 81-104. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins .
  • Jeffries, L. & Walker, B. (2019). ‘Austerity in the Commons A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803– 2015)’. In Power, K. Ali, T. and Lebdušková, E. (2019) Discourse Analysis and Austerity. Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics, pp. 53-79. London: Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Jeffries, L., (2001). ‘Schema affirmation and White Asparagus: cultural multilingualism among readers of texts.’ Language and Literature, 10 (4): 325-343. DOI:10.1177/0973-9470-20010804-03
  • Jeffries, L., (2003). ‘Analogy and multi-modal exploration in the teaching of language theory’, Style 37(1): 67-85.
  • Jeffries, L., (2003). ‘Not a drop to drink: emerging meanings in local newspaper reporting of the 1995 water crisis in Yorkshire ‘, Text 23(4): 513-38. DOI:10.1515/TEXT.2003.020
  • Jeffries, L., (2008) ‘The role of style in reader-involvement: Deictic shifting in contemporary poems.’ Journal of Literary Semantics 37 (2008), 69-85. DOI:10.1515/jlse.2008.005
  • Jeffries, L. & Walker, B. (2012). ‘Key words in the press: A critical corpus-driven analysis of ideology in the Blair years (1998- 2007). English Text Construction 5(2): 208 – 229.
  • Jeffries, L. & Evans, M., (2015). ‘The rise of choice as an absolute ‘good’: A study of British manifestos, 1900-2010’. Language and Politics. DOI:10.1075/JLP.14.6.02EVA
  • Jeffries, L. (2015). ‘Textual meaning and its place in a theory of language’. Topics in Linguistics 15(1) doi: 10.2478/toppling-2015-0006 DOI:10.2478/topling-2015-0006
  • Jeffries, L. (2016). ‘“When did you decide to tell the truth?”: Negotiating truth in rape trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’, Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict 4(2):151-177. DOI:10.1075/JLAC.4.2.01JEF

Other

  • Jeffries, L. (2000). ‘Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater: in defence of theoretical eclecticism in Stylistics’ PALA Occasional Papers No. 12.
  • Jeffries, L., (2006). ‘Poetry: Stylistic Aspects.’ In Brown, K. (ed) Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Elsevier, Oxford, 645-651.
  • McIntyre, D., Jeffries, L., Evans, M., Price, H. & Gold, E. (2022) The Babel Lexicon of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.