Pragmatic stylistics / Elizabeth Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Elizabeth.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics.

Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 r

Contents:

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Pragmatics and Stylistics; 2 Pragmatic Theories; 3 Signposts; 4 Narrative Voices; 5 Direct and Indirect Discourse; 6 Politeness and Literary Discourse; 7 Relevance and Echoic Discourse; 8 Tropes and Parody; 9 Symbolism; 10 Psychonarration; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; General Index; Index to Literary Authors and Works Cited;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography (p. [158]-162) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-64314-5

9786610643141

0-7486-2637-9

OCLC:

76882463