Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English Linguistics at University Paul-Valéry – Montpellier (France), specialising in stylistics and pragmatics. Her latest book Language and Manipulation in House of Cards (2016) received an award from the European Society for the Study of English. She co-edited The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns (2015) and edited Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury 2020). She is also assistant editor of Language and Literature.