Pragmatic literary stylistics /
"Pragmatic Literary Stylistics considers the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts. The contributors draw on a wide range of contemporary pragmatic theories, including relevance...
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Pragmatic Literary Sylistics / Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark
- 2. The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark's Telling / Andrew Caink
- 3. 'Oh, do let's talk about something else -': What is Not Said and What is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September / Siobhan Chapman
- 4. Before and After Chekhov: Inference, Interpretation and Evaluation / Billy Clark
- 5. Outsourcing: A Relevance-theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts / Anne Furlong
- 6. Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative / Barbara MacMahon
- 7. Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989) / Lisa Nahajec
- 8. Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading / Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
- 9. 'I've never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life'. The Co-Construction of Reader Identity in the Reading Group / David Peplow
- 10. The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature, and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley's Secret / Ruth Schuldiner
- 11. Literature as discourse and dialogue: rapport management (Facework) in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's 'Blackeye and his donkey' / Chantelle Warner.