Michael Toolan

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Toolan is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Toolan has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Language and Linguistics, 28 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 19 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Toolan's work include Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (25 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 papers). Michael Toolan is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (25 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 papers). Michael Toolan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Michael Toolan's co-authors include Geoffrey Leech, Monika Fludernik, Uri Margolin, David Herman, Teresa Bridgeman, Neal R. Norrick, Manfred Jahn, James Phelan, Ruth Page and Heta Pyrhönen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, TESOL Quarterly and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Toolan

71 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Toolan United Kingdom	16	672	545	455	146	141	82	1.3k
G. David Morley United Kingdom	3	807 1.2×	867 1.6×	441 1.0×	142 1.0×	130 0.9×	7	1.6k
William F. Hanks United States	19	338 0.5×	693 1.3×	356 0.8×	262 1.8×	120 0.9×	42	1.6k
Andrew Goatly Hong Kong	12	374 0.6×	347 0.6×	604 1.3×	95 0.7×	145 1.0×	31	943
Joseph Bosco Hong Kong	5	505 0.8×	923 1.7×	256 0.6×	304 2.1×	110 0.8×	8	1.6k
Monika Fludernik Germany	18	1.2k 1.8×	302 0.6×	603 1.3×	290 2.0×	268 1.9×	81	1.8k
John Leavitt Canada	8	261 0.4×	523 1.0×	296 0.7×	201 1.4×	127 0.9×	24	1.1k
Norbert Dittmar Germany	10	342 0.5×	670 1.2×	196 0.4×	229 1.6×	96 0.7×	36	1.3k
Joël Sherzer United States	20	477 0.7×	989 1.8×	473 1.0×	235 1.6×	137 1.0×	55	1.9k
Anna Wierzbicka Australia	13	182 0.3×	991 1.8×	581 1.3×	189 1.3×	123 0.9×	41	1.7k
Андреас Мусолфф United Kingdom	19	619 0.9×	695 1.3×	1.2k 2.6×	339 2.3×	288 2.0×	69	1.8k

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Toolan, Michael. (2018). How children’s literature is translated: suggestions for stylistic research using parallel corpora. Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies. 71(1). 151–168. 3 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2016). Making Sense of Narrative Text. 12 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2016). Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 7 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2015). Poetry and poetics. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 231–247. 2 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2012). Engagement via Emotional Heightening in “Passion”: On the Grammatical Texture of Emotionally-Immersive Passages in Short Fiction. Narrative. 20(2). 210–225. 5 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2012). Narrative. 11 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2011). Chapter 9. “I don’t know what they’re saying half the time, but I’m hooked on the series”: Incomprehensible dialogue and integrated multimodal characterisation in The Wire. 161–183. 2 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2010). 'Language, Meaning and the Law.' Christopher Hutton (2009). International Journal of Speech Language and the Law. 16(2). 303–310.

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Toolan, Michael. (2006). Legal Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts: Arbitration Texts in Europe: Vijay Bhatia, Christopher N. Candlin Maurizio Gotti (eds). Language Awareness. 15(2). 128–130.

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Toolan, Michael. (2006). Book Review: Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students. Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics. 15(4). 409–411.

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Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa & Michael Toolan. (2005). The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology. 2 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2003). Le Politiquement Correct Dans le Monde Français. Discourse & Society. 14(1). 69–86. 6 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (2002). Current debates and new directions. Routledge eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1998). Language in literature : an introduction to stylistics. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 59 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1997). What is critical discourse analysis and why are people saying such terrible things about it?1. Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics. 6(2). 83–103. 74 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1997). A few words on telementation. Language Sciences. 19(1). 79–91. 11 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1996). Total Speech. 2 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1996). Total Speech. 32 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1994). The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction. Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics. 3(3). 223–228. 63 indexed citations

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Toolan, Michael. (1993). On doing things for other people. Language & Communication. 13(2). 137–140. 1 indexed citations

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