Background
Michael Toolan was born on May 18, 1953 in London, United Kingdom.
Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, United Kingdom
Michael Toolan received a Master of Arts from the University of Edinburgh in 1976.
Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
In 1981 Michael Toolan got a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University.
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Language in Literature examines the ways in which language is organised to create particular meanings or effects.
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1996
Michael Toolan was born on May 18, 1953 in London, United Kingdom.
Michael Toolan received a Master of Arts from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. Five years later he got a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University.
After graduating, Michael Toolan taught for six years at the National University of Singapore, and for nine years at the University of Washington, Seattle. He began his cooperation with the University of Birmingham in 1996. Since 2002 he has been editor of the Journal of Literary Semantics and is on the board of the International Association for Literary Semantics. He has also been Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Michael also contributes to numerous scholarly publications and frequently serves as Ph.D. examiner, program consultant, or external assessor.
Michael Toolan's Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction is considered an excellent introduction to the subject; it examines structural elements within both written and oral forms of discourse, including fairy tales, short stories, newspaper reports, children’s stories, conversation, and legal testimony.
In The Stylistics of Fiction, which began as his doctoral thesis, Toolan offers a stylistic reading of William Faulkner’s Go down, Moses. His goal is to show that stylistics of fiction is feasible; that linguistics can be both pleasing and useful in the textual study; and that linguistic analysis, in its own systematic way, can afford us glimpses at least of the depth of Faulkner’s craft.
Toolan presents an argument for integrational linguistics in Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. He has also edited Language, Text, and Context: Essays in Stylistics.
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1996Michael Toolan married in 1976. He has three children.