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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
v. 35. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."