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Author | : Siobhan Chapman |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902726192X |
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Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All have a shared focus on applying ideas from specific pragmatic frameworks to understanding the production, interpretation and evaluation of literary texts. A full-length introductory chapter highlights distinctions and contrasts between pragmatic theories, but also brings out complementarities, shared aims and assumptions, and ways in which different pragmatic theories can make different contributions to our understanding of literary texts. The book as a whole encourages a sense of coherence for the field and presents insights from various approaches for systematic comparison. Building on previous work by the editors, the contributors and others, it makes a significant contribution to the growing field of pragmatic literary stylistics.
Author | : Roger D Sell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317565193 |
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Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity. This has now radically changed. ‘Pragmatics’ could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and its users. This volume, first published in 1991, seeks to reposition literary activity at the centre of that study. The internationally renowned contributors draw together two main streams. On the one hand, there are concerns which are close to the syntax and semantics of mainstream linguistics, and on the other, there are concerns ranging towards anthropological linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics. Literary Pragmatics represents an antidote to the fragmenting specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the twentieth century. This book will be of lasting value to students of linguistics, literature and society. Roger D. Sell discusses the reissue of Literary Pragmatics here: http://www.routledge.com/articles/roger_d._sell_discusses_the_reissue_of_literary_pragmatics/
Author | : Roger D. Sell |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262020 |
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In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which develop between literary writers and those who respond to them. Literary writers, through their handling of deixis, evaluative and modal expressions, tellability, politeness norms, and genre expectations, activate the same interpersonal function of language as do other language users, and respondents’ hermeneutic contextualizations of literary texts are no less standard as a pragmatic procedure. Not that context is completely determinative. In Sell’s account, human beings are profoundly influenced by society, but can sometimes enter into co-adaptations with it. Like other people, literary writers and their respondents are “social individuals”, who themselves benefit from respecting each other’s relative autonomy. As well as explaining these theoretical positions, the papers selected here offered critical re-assessments of some major writers, including Chaucer and Dickens. They also suggested new ways of dealing with literary texts in literary and language education at all levels.
Author | : Chantelle Warner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 041550130X |
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In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary works that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years and have in some way been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, autobiographicality, testimonial representation, and referentiality. By presenting a model for an integrative stylistics approach, such as is needed to understand non-fictional, poetic effects such as authenticity, this book participates in current discussions within fields of literary linguistic scholarship. Of particular interest to those in the fields of German Studies; stylistics; and autobiography, testimony, and life-writing.
Author | : S. Chapman |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781349438129 |
Download Pragmatic Literary Stylistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.
Author | : Teun A. van Dijk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jon-K. Adams |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027225443 |
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This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an empirical corpus and is shown to produce a systematic set of behavioral measures which are potentially productive for cross-cultural comparison.
Author | : Manuel Jobert |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018-04-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027264236 |
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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse analysts and literary scholars), while not necessarily agreeing on every aspect of this theoretical premise, discuss and develop the idea. In turn, they consider the workings of these two discursive practices in various corpora (face-to-face or digitally-mediated interactions, novels, comedy shows, etc.) thus providing a wealth of examples and case studies. This well-balanced positioning helps the reader to develop a better understanding of these complex discursive practices that play a crucial part in everyday interaction. Steering a course between traditional perspectives and new theoretical approaches, this innovative and exciting way of looking at irony and banter will no doubt open new avenues for research.
Author | : Miriam A. Locher |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110431092 |
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Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fictional language allows scholars to review key concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance, dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages, the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.
Author | : Marcello Pagnini |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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