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Title Pragmatic literary stylistics / edited by Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool, UK, Billy Clark, Middlesex University, UK
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
Series Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition
Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Pragmatic Literary Stylistics; 2 The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark's Telling; 3 'Oh, do let's talk about something else-': What Is Not Said and What Is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September; 4 Before and After Chekhov: Inference, Interpretation and Evaluation; 5 Outsourcing: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts; 6 Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative
7 Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989)8 Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading; 9 'I've never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life': The Co-Construction of Identity in the Reading Group; 10 The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley's Secret; 11 Literature as Discourse and Dialogue: Rapport Management (Facework) in Emine Sevgi Ă–zdamar's' Blackeye and His Donkey'; Bibliography; Index
Summary "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 theory, Gricean and neo-Gricean theory and politeness theory and utilise a variety of different types and genres of literary text in their analysis, including prose fiction, drama and poetry. An introductory chapter locates the book with respect to the history and current state of the field, and puts forward proposals for future direction. This book offers examples of some of the most important current types of interaction between pragmatics and literary stylistics which sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Linguistics in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Language and languages in literature
Linguistics in literature
Form Electronic book
Author Chapman, Siobhan, 1968- editor.
Clark, Billy, editor
ISBN 9781137023278
1137023279