Language Processing and the Reading of Literature Toward a Model of Comprehension / George L. Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, George L., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Generative grammar.

Discourse analysis.

Grammaire generative.

Psycholinguistique.

Analyse du discours.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xxxi, 208 pages)

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1978

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dillon draws upon recent studies of language processing to ask how linguistic form shapes readers' (or hearers') responses to literary texts. The resulting model of comprehension gives an explicit account of the strategies readers may use in analyzing and comprehending passages from Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Henry James, Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, and other notoriously "difficult" writers. Dillon's model bears on many of the major issues in current literary theory, such as whether and how "literary" reading differs from other kinds of reading and what the function and importance of ambiguity is within a literary work. The book's overall aim is to supplant William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity as an account of how we do and should read literature.

Contents:

Introduction : style and processing

Phrases and their functions

Clause boundaries

Reference, coreference, and attachment : pronouns and participials

Reference, coreference, and attachment : apposition

Consciousness of sentence structure

Integration into context

Some values of complex processing

Conclusion : toward a specification of response.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05098-7

OCLC:

1259586460