Bousfield, Derek, Jeffries, Lesley, McIntyre, Dan and Short, Mick (2007) Reader responses to interpreting poetry. In: 27th Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 31st July - 4th August 2007, Kansai-Gaidai University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. (Unpublished)
Jeffries, Lesley (2016) “When did you decide to tell the truth?” Negotiating truth in rape trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 4 (2). pp. 151-177. ISSN 2213-1272
Jeffries, Lesley and Evans, Matthew (2015) The rise of choice as an absolute ‘good’: A study of British manifestos, (1900-2010). Journal of Language and Politics, 14 (6). pp. 751-777. ISSN 1569-2159
Jeffries, Lesley (2015) Critical Stylistics. In: The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics. Bloomsbury Companions . Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 157-176. ISBN 9781441160058
Jeffries, Lesley (2015) Language and Ideology. In: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 379-405. ISBN 9781107035461
Jeffries, Lesley (2015) Textual meaning and its place in a theory of language. Topics in Linguistics, 15 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1337-7590
Jeffries, Lesley (2014) Interpretation. In: The Handbook of Stylistics. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 469-486. ISBN 9781107028876
Jeffries, Lesley (2014) Critical Stylistics. In: The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. Routledge Handbooks in English Language Studies . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 408-420. ISBN 978-0-415-52790-3
Jeffries, Lesley and Walker, Brian (2012) Key words in the press: A critical corpus-driven analysis of ideology in the Blair years (1998- 2007). English Text Construction, 5 (2). pp. 208-229. ISSN 1874-8767
Jeffries, Lesley and McIntyre, Dan (2011) Introduction to Teaching Stylistics. In: Teaching Stylistics. Teaching the New English . Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9780230235878
Jeffries, Lesley (2011) ‘Radicalisation’ and ‘democracy’ - a linguistic analysis of rhetorical change. In: Redefining social justice: New Labour, rhetoric and reality. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, pp. 37-56. ISBN 9780719082214
Jeffries, Lesley and McIntyre, Dan (2011) Teaching Stylistics. Teaching the New English . Palgrave, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230235878
Jeffries, Lesley and McIntyre, Dan (2010) Stylistics. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521728690
Jeffries, Lesley (2010) Opposition In Discourse: The Construction of Oppositional Meaning. Advances in Stylistics . Continuum, London. ISBN 9781847065124
Jeffries, Lesley (2009) Critical Stylistics: the Power of English. Perspectives on the English Language . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333964484
Jeffries, Lesley (2009) The Language of Poems for Children: A Stylistic Case Study. In: Children's Literature. Approaches and Territories. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 218-235. ISBN 9780230227132
Jeffries, Lesley (2008) The role of style in reader-involvement: Deictic shifting in contemporary poems. Journal of Literary Semantics, 37 (1). pp. 69-85. ISSN 03417638
Jeffries, Lesley (2008) Grammatical iconicty in poetry: information structure in English clauses and its signifying potential. In: First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), 8 - 11 October 2008, University of Freiburg, Germany. (Submitted)
Jeffries, Lesley (2007) Journalistic Constructions of Blair's 'Apology' for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War. In: Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. Advances in Sociolinguistics . Continuum, London, pp. 48-69. ISBN 9780826495488
Jeffries, Lesley (2007) What makes English into Art? In: Redesigning English. Routledge, London, pp. 5-33. ISBN 978-0-415-37688-4
Jeffries, Lesley, McIntyre, Dan and Bousfield, Derek (2007) Stylistics and social cognition. PALA Papers, 4 . Rodopi, Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042023123
Jeffries, Lesley (2007) Textual Construction of the Female Body A Critical Discourse Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333914519
Jeffries, Lesley (2006) Discovering language: the structure of modern English. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA. ISBN 1-4039-1261-0
Jeffries, Lesley (2006) Poetry: Stylistic Aspects. In: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 645-651. ISBN 0-08-044299-4
Jeffries, Lesley (2004) Silent game: the stylistic 'shadow' of a poem and readers' meanings. In: PALA Annual Conference 2004, 25 - 28 July 2004, New York University. (Unpublished)
Jeffries, Lesley (2003) Analogy and Multi-modal Exploration in the Teaching of Language Theory. Style, 37 (1). pp. 67-85.
Jeffries, Lesley (2003) Not a drop to drink: Emerging meanings in local newspaper reporting of the 1995 water crisis in Yorkshire. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 23 (4). pp. 513-538. ISSN 1613-4117
Jeffries, Lesley (2003) Setting the scene, setting up the tension: the creation of opposition in the openings of novels. In: PALA Annual Conference 2003, 23 - 26 June 2003, Bogazici University, Istanbul. (Unpublished)
Jeffries, Lesley (2002) When words aren’t enough. Writers respond to the WTC attack of 11th September 2001. In: PALA Annual Conference 2002, 4 - 6 April 2002, University of Birmingham. (Unpublished)
Jeffries, Lesley (2001) Schema affirmation and White Asparagus: cultural multilingualism among readers of texts. Language and Literature, 10 (4). pp. 325-343. ISSN 09639470
Jeffries, Lesley (2000) Constructing the adolescent female body: a critical discourse analysis approach. In: International Pragmatics Association Annual Conference 2000, 9 - 14 July, Budapest Technical University, Hungary. (Unpublished)
Jeffries, Lesley and Sansom, Peter (2000) Contemporary poems: some critical approaches. Smith Doorstop Books, Huddersfield. ISBN 9781902382265
Jeffries, Lesley (2000) Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: in defence of theoretical eclecticism in stylistics. Working Paper. Poetics and Linguistics Association.
Jeffries, Lesley (2000) Point of view and the reader in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. In: Contemporary poems: some critical approaches. Smith/Doorstep Books, Huddersfield, pp. 54-68. ISBN 1902382269
Jeffries, Lesley (1998) Meaning in english: an introduction to language study. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333739464
Jeffries, Lesley (1996) What makes language into art? In: Using English : from conversation to canon. Routledge, London, pp. 162-184. ISBN 9780415131209
Jeffries, Lesley (1993) The language of twentieth century poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333459379
Short, Mick, McIntyre, Dan, Jeffries, Lesley and Bousfield, Derek (2011) Processes of interpretation: using meta-analysis to inform pedagogic practice. In: Teaching Stylistics. Teaching the New English . Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 69-94. ISBN 9780230235878
Short, Mick, McIntyre, Dan, Bousfield, Derek and Jeffries, Lesley (2006) Interpretation. In: 26th Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 26th - 29th July 2006, University of Joensuu, Finland. (Unpublished)