Literary Pragmatics (Routledge Revivals)
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Literary Pragmatics (Routledge Revivals)

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Literary Pragmatics (Routledge Revivals)

About this book

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/

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Dedication
  9. Literary Pragmatics An Introduction
  10. 1 On the Interpretability of Texts in General and of Literary Texts in Particular
  11. 2 Cross-Cultural Problems in the Perception of Literature
  12. 3 Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective
  13. 4 How Indirect Discourse Means Syntax, semantics, poetics, pragmatics
  14. 5 Poems as Text and Discourse: The poetics of Philip Larkin1
  15. 6 Understanding Metaphor in Literature: Towards an empirical study1
  16. 7 But what is Literature?: Toward a descriptive definition of literature
  17. 8 Two-Way Pragmatics From world to text and back
  18. 9 On Free and Latent Semantic Energy
  19. 10 Textualization
  20. 11 What Difference do the Circumstances of Publication Make to the Interpretation of a Literary Work?
  21. 12 The Politeness of Literary Texts
  22. 13 How does the Writer of a Dramatic Text Interact with his Audiences? On the pragmatics of literary communication
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index