Characteristics and Functions of Direct Quotes in Hispanic Fiction
Subtitle: A Linguistic Analysis (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780820452685
Subjects: General; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin American Literature; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; 20th century; Direct discourse in literature; History and criticism; Spanish American fiction; Spanish fiction
Description: "The application of pragmalinguistic methods of analysis to literature is often difficult due to the special and unique way language is used in a written literary work. Based on the assumption that literature is an act of communication, Isolde J. Jordan applies communication models, such as Buhler's, Jacobson's, and Ducrot's, and theories of relevance, information and dialogue structure, and foregrounding to direct quotations taken from Hispanic fiction.

Jordon shows how direct speech reporting can facilitate the interpretation of fiction by creating context, enhancing relevance, and by foregrounding information, and thus speaking directly to the reader."--BOOK JACKET.