Pragmatic Stylistics
Pragmatic Stylistics

Author: Elizabeth Black

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2005-12-20

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0748626379

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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 related to the more explicitly linguistic Relevance Theory. Metaphor, irony and parody are examined primarily as pragmatic phenomena, and there is a strand of sociolinguistic interest particularly in relation to the theories of Labov and Bakhtin.

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

Author: S. Chapman

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9781349438129

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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.

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

Author: S. Chapman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1137023279

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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.

Pragmatics and Literature
Pragmatics and Literature

Author: Siobhan Chapman

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2019-12-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 902726192X

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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. All have a shared focus on applying ideas from specific pragmatic frameworks to understanding the production, interpretation and evaluation of literary texts. A full-length introductory chapter highlights distinctions and contrasts between pragmatic theories, but also brings out complementarities, shared aims and assumptions, and ways in which different pragmatic theories can make different contributions to our understanding of literary texts. The book as a whole encourages a sense of coherence for the field and presents insights from various approaches for systematic comparison. Building on previous work by the editors, the contributors and others, it makes a significant contribution to the growing field of pragmatic literary stylistics.

The Stylistics of ‘You'
The Stylistics of ‘You'

Author: Sandrine Sorlin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1108967566

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Including examples from a broad range of sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium, to provide an encompassing theoretical framework for the second-person pronoun. With its unique inter-disciplinary perspective, it will interest students and scholars of both linguistics and literature.

The Pragmatics of Style (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
The Pragmatics of Style (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)

Author: Leo Hickey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317933567

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In the general area of style study or stylistics there is no shortage of ideas, definitions or published works. It is hoped, in the present volume, to contribute to the prosperity of the discipline mainly by clarifying and exemplifying how pragmatic considerations may be relevant to any study of style, in the conviction that pragmastylistics is more interesting and useful than stylistics on its own. The starting point must be a brief survey of the definitions and style and stylistics. The very form of the latter term suggests a scientific and orderly, rather than an intuitive or impressionistic, investigation of style. There are two separate levels of study: one, a general, methodical and scientific discipline; the other, an application of its methods or postulates to the analysis of the ‘style’ of a specific utterance, text, speaker, writer, movement or period. It is clear that, in order to approach either, we must first attempt to understand style.

Introduction to Paremiology
Introduction to Paremiology

Author: Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 3110456125

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This handbook introduces key elements of the philological research area called paremiology (the study of proverbs). It presents the main subject area as well as the current status of paremiological research. The basic notions, among others, include defining proverbs, main proverb features, origin, collecting and categorization of proverbs. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar-specialist in their area of proverbial research. Since the book represents a measured balance between the popular and scientific approach, it is recommended to a wide readership including experienced and budding scholars, students of linguistics, as well as other professionals interested in the study of proverbs.

The Pragmatics of Interaction
The Pragmatics of Interaction

Author: Sigurd D’hondt

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009-09-30

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9027289190

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The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or discursive angles, this fourth volume is dedicated to the empirical investigation of the way human beings organize their interaction in natural environments and how they use talk for accomplishing actions and their contexts. Starting from Goffman’s observation that interaction exhibits a structure in its own right that cannot be reduced to the psychological properties of the individual nor to society, it contains a selection of articles documenting the various levels of interactional organization. In addition to treatments of basic concepts such as sequence, participation, prosody and style and some topical articles on phenomena like reported speech and listener response, it also includes overviews of specific traditions (conversation analysis, ethnomethodology) and articles on eminent authors (Goffman, Sacks) who had a formative influence on the field.

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics
The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

Author: Michael Burke

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-29

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 1000828964

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Encompasses a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience Comprises 33 chapters, each providing an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on Includes four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children’s literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues