In 1979 he founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association where he and acted as the treasurer from 1979 to 1982, and later served on the committee. The association started a journal, Parlance, at his instigation, and it was produced at Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University between 1988 and 1991. In 1985, Short co-founded the journal Language and Literature. In 2006 he organised the Style in Fiction Symposium in Lancaster.
Awards
In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship. In 2005 Short and Geoffrey Leech's book Style in Fiction was awarded the PALA 25th anniversary Book Prize as the most influential book in the field of stylistics.
Publications
Short has publications in several major journals such as Applied Linguistics, The Journal of Literary Semantics, Language and Literature, Language and Style, Narrative, Poetics, Style, and Text. Short's most famous publication is entitled Style in Fiction, co-authored with Geoffrey Leech. The book was first published in 1981 and has sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide.
Books
Culpeper, J., Short, M., Verdonk, P., Culpeper, J., Short, M., & Verdonk, P. . Exploring the language of drama : from text to context. London: Routledge.
Semino, E., & Short, M. H.. Corpus stylistics: speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing. London: Routledge.
Leech, G., & Short, M.. Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose.. Harlow: Pearson Longman.
Articles
Heywood, J., Semino, E., & Short, M. H.. Linguistic metaphor identification in two extracts from novels. Language and Literature, 11, 35–54.
Short, MH & Archer, D 2003, 'Designing a world-wide web-based stylistics course and investigating its effectiveness.' Style, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 27–64.
Semino, E., Heywood, J., & Short, M. H.. Methodological problems in the analysis of a corpus of conversations about cancer. Journal of Pragmatics, 36, 1271–1294. doi:
McIntyre, D., Bellard-Thomson, C., Heywood, J., McEnery, A. M., Semino, E., & Short, M. H.. Investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in British English : a corpus-based approach. ICAME Journal, 28, 49–76.
Short, M. H., Busse, B., & Plummer, P.. Afterword. Language and Literature, 15, 321–322.
Short, M. H., Busse, B., & Plummer, P.. 'Preface: The web-based Language and Style Course, E-learning and Stylistics'. Language and Literature, 15, 219–233.
Short, M. H.. 'E-learning and Language and Style in Lancaster'. Language and Literature, 15, 234–256. doi:
