Louise Nuttall

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Biography

I completed my AHRC-funded doctoral thesis, A Cognitive Grammar of Mind Style in Speculative Fiction, at the University of Nottingham in 2015. I have since worked as a Lecturer in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham and Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, where I taught descriptive linguistics, stylistics and cognitive linguistics. I was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English at the University of Nottingham in 2022. My research centres in cognitive stylistics and applications of cognitive linguistic frameworks to the analysis of discourse in different contexts. I am author of Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar (2018, Bloomsbury) and co-editor of two volumes: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style (2021, Bloomsbury) and Cognitive Grammar in Literature (2014, John Benjamins).

Expertise Summary

My research draws on cognitive linguistic frameworks such as Cognitive Grammar and Text World Theory in order to enrich the analysis of other minds (or 'mind style') in both literary and non-literary texts. My research draws on quantitative and qualitative analysis of reader responses to inform our understanding of what happens when we read. I am interested in how such empirical data can be used to inform and interrogate the accounts of textual interpretation offered by cognitive stylistics.

Most recently, I have begun to examine the ways in which cognitive linguistics might help up to understand the way language is experienced in contexts relating to health communication.

Recent Publications

• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2025. Linguistic choices in mindfulness training: a corpus-cognitive stylistic analysis of guided meditation on the Headspace app Applied Linguistics. (In Press.)
• 2024. Experiencing Mind Style: From Iconicity to Sensory Simulation. In: LINDA PILLIERE and SANDRINE SORLIN, eds., Style and Sense(s) Palgrave Macmillan. 151-175
• MARCELLO GIOVANELLI, CHLOE HARRISON and LOUISE NUTTALL, eds., 2021. New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style Bloomsbury.
• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2021. Guilty grammar: See-saw perspective and morality in a poem by E.E. Cummings. In: MARCELLO GIOVANELLI, CHLOE HARRISON and LOUISE NUTTALL, eds., New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style

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• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2025. Linguistic choices in mindfulness training: a corpus-cognitive stylistic analysis of guided meditation on the Headspace app Applied Linguistics. (In Press.)
• 2024. Experiencing Mind Style: From Iconicity to Sensory Simulation. In: LINDA PILLIERE and SANDRINE SORLIN, eds., Style and Sense(s) Palgrave Macmillan. 151-175
• MARCELLO GIOVANELLI, CHLOE HARRISON and LOUISE NUTTALL, eds., 2021. New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style Bloomsbury.
• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2021. Guilty grammar: See-saw perspective and morality in a poem by E.E. Cummings. In: MARCELLO GIOVANELLI, CHLOE HARRISON and LOUISE NUTTALL, eds., New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style
• CHLOE HARRISON and LOUISE NUTTALL, 2021. Rereading as retelling: Re-evaluations of perspective in narrative fiction. In: MARINA LAMBROU, ed., Narrative (Re)tellings
• LOUISE NUTTALL and CHLOE HARRISON, 2020. Wolfing down the Twilight series: Metaphors for reading in online reviews. In: STEPHEN PILAHJA and HELEN RINGROW, eds., Contemporary Media Stylistics Bloomsbury.
• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2019. "Real" Mind Style and Authenticity Effects in Fiction: Represented Experiences of War in Atonement Style. 53(2), 215-235
• LOUISE NUTTALL and CHLOE HARRISON, 2019. Cognitive grammar and reconstrual: Re-experiencing Margaret Atwood’s “The Freeze-Dried Groom”. In: LIZZIE STEWART-SHAW and BENEDICT NEUROHR, eds., Experiencing Fictional Worlds John Benjamins. 135-154
• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2019. Transitivity, agency, mind style: What’s the lowest common denominator? Language and Literature. 28(3),
• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2018. Cognitive Grammar: how do the structures of language create meaning in The Handmaid's Tale? At: Babel: The Language Magazine, Issue 24
• CHLOE HARRISON and LOUISE NUTTALL, 2018. Re-reading in stylistics Language and Literature. 27(3), 176-195
• 2018. Mind style and Cognitive Grammar: Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction Bloomsbury.
• LOUISE NUTTALL, 2017. Online readers between the camps: A Text World Theory analysis of ethical positioning in We Need to Talk About Kevin Language and Literature. 26(2), 153-171
• NUTTALL, L., 2015. Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend Language and Literature. 24(1), 24-39
• C. HARRISON, L. NUTTALL, P. STOCKWELL and W. YUAN, eds., 2014. Cognitive Grammar in Literature John Benjamins.
• NUTTALL, L., 2014. Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale. In: HARRISON, C., NUTTALL, L., STOCKWELL, P. and YUAN, W., eds., Cognitive Grammar in Literature John Benjamins. 83-99
• LOUISE NUTTALL, CHLOE HARRISON, PETER STOCKWELL and WENJUAN YUAN, 2014. Introduction: Cognitive Grammar in Literature. In: CHLOE HARRISON, LOUISE NUTTALL, PETER STOCKWELL and WENJUAN YUAN, eds., Cognitive Grammar in Literature John Benjamins. 1-16