Pragmatic Stylistics
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0748620419
ISBN-13
9780748620418
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 21st, 2005
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
292 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
linguisticsLiterary theory
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A study of literary stylistics using pragmatic theories.
This volume is a study of the language of literary texts. It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial authority and character focalisation. The book includes a description of Grice''s Co-operative Principle and its contribution to the interpretation of literary texts, and considers Sperber and Wilson''s Relevance Theory, with particular stress on the valuable insights into irony and varieties of indirect discourse it offers. Bakhtin''s theories are introduced, and related to the more explicitly linguistic Relevance Theory. Metaphor, irony and parody are examined primarily as pragmatic phenomena, and there is a strand of sociolinguistic interest particularly in relation to the theories of Labov and Bakhtin.
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