Pragmatics and literature
"Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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| Series: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
v. 35. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Pragmatics and Literature; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; References; 2. Marked forms and indeterminate implicatures in Ernest Hemingway's 'Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises'; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The extract; 2.3 The novel and its critics; 2.4 Markedness and speech presentation; 2.4.1 Marked forms; 2.4.2 Speech presentation in 'Fiesta'; 2.4.2.1 Syntax/idiom; 2.4.2.2 "Colouring"; 2.4.2.3 Explicit statement; 2.5 Markedness and indeterminacy in pragmatics; 2.6 Summary
- 3.4.4 Example 4: "a drink which differed hardly at all"3.4.4.1 Inferential steps; 3.4.5 Example 5: "I can safely say that those two won't be seeing each other again"; 3.4.5.1 Inferential steps; 3.4.6 Example 6: "The fervour of my gratitude is well-nigh inexpressible"; 3.4.6.1 Inferential steps; 3.5 Summary; References; 4. What the /fʌk/? An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a scene from 'The Wire'; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Implicated meaning; 4.3 Combining pragmatic and acoustic analytical methods; 4.3.1 Pragmatics; 4.3.2 Acoustics; 4.3.3 Statistics; 4.4 Results
- 4.4.1 Pragmatics4.4.2 Acoustics; 4.4.2.1 Formants; 4.4.2.2 Duration; 4.4.3 Statistics; 4.5 Summary; References; 5. Misleading and relevance in Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Relevance theory and pragmatic literary stylistics; 5.2.1 Relevance and interpretation; 5.2.2 Relevance, misleading and misunderstanding; 5.2.3 Relevance and literary interpretation; 5.3 Misleading and stylistic effects in 'Twelfth Night'; 5.3.1 Viola, Orsino and speaking unspeakable love; 5.3.2 The gulling of Malvolio; 5.3.3 Feste: A corrupter of words; 5.4 Summary; References
- 6. Lexical pragmatics in the context of structural parallelism6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Syntactic parallelism; 6.3 Lexical adjustment; 6.4 Syntactic parallelism feeds "what is said"; 6.5 Theoretical implications; 6.6 Summary; References; A. Appendix; 7. "Lazy reading" and "half-formed things": Indeterminacy and responses to Eimear McBride's 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing'; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing'; 7.3 Pragmatics and indeterminacy; 7.3.1 Explicatures and implicatures; 7.3.2 Open-endedness and spontaneousness; 7.3.3 "Manifestness"