Sandrine Sorlin

**Sandrine Sorlin** is Professor of English language and linguistics. Previously at Aix-Marseille University (from 2013 to 2018), she is now a professor at University Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 (where she was a senior lecturer from 2007 to 2013). She is an honorary fellow member of the *Institut Universitaire de France*. Specialized in stylistics and pragmatics, she has published books on linguistic defamiliarisation in English literature (*La Défamiliarisation linguistique dans le roman anglais contemporain*, PULM, 2010) and on language and authority in a historical perspective (*Langage et autorité: de l’ordre linguistique à la force dialogique*, PUR, 2012). She is also the author of a handbook of stylistics (*La Stylistique anglaise. Théories et Pratiques*, PUR, 2014), the co-editor of *The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns* with Laure Gardelle (John Benjamins, 2015*)* and *The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter* with Manuel Jobert (John Benjamins, 2018) She published a monograph on an American political TV series (*Language and Manipulation in* House of Cards*: A Pragma-Stylistic Perspective*, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) for which she received an award from the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE book award 2018). She edited a book on *Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction* (Bloomsbury, 2020) and co-edited with Virginie Iché *The Rhetoric of Literary Communication. From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction* with Routledge (2022). Her latest monograph brings together her interests in personal pronouns and addresses to readers. It is entitled *The Stylistics of 'You'. Second-Person Pronoun and Its Pragmatic Effects* and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She chaired the *Société de Stylistique Anglaise* (http://stylistique-anglaise.org/home/) from 2015 to 2019 and then co-chaired it until 2021. She was editor-in-chief of *Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise* during that period*.* She is currently Assistant Editor of *Language and Literature*. *International Journal of Stylistics*.