Pragmatic literary stylistics
By: Edited by Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool, UK ; Billy Clark, Middlesex University, UK
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781137023254
Subjects: Linguistics in literature; Language and languages in literature; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction; Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark2. The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark's Telling; Andrew Caink3. 'Oh, do let's talk about something else -': What is Not Said and What is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September; Siobhan Chapman4. Before and After Chekhov: Inferring Literary Interpretations and Literary Value; Billy Clark 5. Outsourcing: A Relevance-theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts; Anne Furlong6. Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative; Barbara MacMahon7. Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989); Lisa Nahajec8. Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading; Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou9. 'I've never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life'. The Co-construction of Reader Identity in the Reading Group ; David Peplow10. The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature, and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley's Secret; Ruth Schuldiner11. Literary Style as Facework: Dialogue and Deference in Turkish-German Literature; Chantelle Warner.