Pragmatic StylisticsIntroduces a range of pragmatic theories and approaches that can be applied to literary texts. This book 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. A study of the language of literary texts. This study introduces a range of pragmatic theories and approaches that can be applied to literary texts. It is an ideal introduction to the topic for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. The book 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. It 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. This textbook series provides advanced introductions to the main areas of study in contemporary Applied Linguistics, with a principal focus on the theory and practice of language teaching and language learning and on the processes and problems of language in use. |
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27th Kingdom anti-language approach argues attitude audience Bakhtin beginning Chapter character's clearly co-operative principle Code switching communication complex conceptual metaphors consider context contribute course deictic dialect echo echoic effect elements Ellis encoded encyclopaedic knowledge evaluative devices example fictional discourse first-person narratives focalisation free indirect genre Grice's Gricean maxims Harmondsworth hearer Heart of Darkness heteroglossia hybrid discourse idiolectal implied indirect discourse inter interaction interesting interlocutors interpretation intertextual irony Labov Leech literary discourse literary texts Lord Emsworth maxim of manner maxim of quality meaning metaphor mind Miss Brodie motivation narratorial voice novel NRTA offer parody particularly passage Penguin perhaps perspective politeness pragmatic present tense Pride and Prejudice reader reading refer relevance theory schemata seems sentence situation Snows of Kilimanjaro sociolects Spark speaker speech acts Sperber and Wilson story suggests symbolic tell textual thought tion Tristram Shandy utterance weak implicatures words writing
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An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory Alan Davies No preview available - 2007 |