<p >In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary...
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In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Pragmatic Literary Stylistics; 2 The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark's Telling; 3 'Oh, do let's talk about something else-': What Is Not Said and What Is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September; 4 Before and After Chekhov: Inference, Interpretation and Evaluation; 5 Outsourcing: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts; 6 Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative
7 Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989)8 Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading; 9 'I've never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life': The Co-Construction of Identity in the Reading Group; 10 The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley's Secret; 11 Literature as Discourse and Dialogue: Rapport Management (Facework) in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's' Blackeye and His Donkey'; Bibliography; Index
