Table of contents
Series editor’s preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
Chapter 1.Tellability and politeness in “The Miller’s Tale”: First steps in literary pragmatics. (1985)
9
Chapter 2.Politeness in Chaucer: Suggestions towards a methodology for pragmatic stylistics. (1985)
29
Chapter 3.Review: George L. Dillon, Rhetoric as social imagination. (1988)
47
Chapter 4.Disciplinary fragmentation and integration: Grammatology and literary pragmatics (1988)
55
Chapter 5.English departments in British higher education: A view from abroad. (1989)
73
Chapter 6.Review article: Leo Hickey, The pragmatics of style; David Birch and Michael O’Toole (eds), Functions of style; Alan Swingewood, Sociological poetics and aesthetic theory. (1991)
85
Chapter 7.How can literary pragmaticists develop empirical methods? The problem of modal and evaluative expressions in literary texts. (1991)
99
Chapter 8.Literary genre and history: Questions from a literary pragmaticist for socio-semioticians. (1991)
107
Chapter 9.Review: Balz Engler, Poetry and community. (1992)
125
Chapter 10.Review: John Stephens and Ruth Waterhouse, Literature, language and change: From Chaucer to the present. (1992)
129
Chapter 11.Review article: Simulative panhumanism: A challenge to current linguistic and literary thought: Michael Shapiro, The sense of change: Language as history; Nicole Ward Jouve, White woman speaks with forked tongue: Criticism as autobiography; Tony Bennett, Outside literature; Sandy Petrey, Speech acts and literary theory; Joel Weinsheimer, Philosophical hermeneutics and literary theory. (1992)
133
Chapter 12.Postdisciplinary philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics. (1994)
151
Chapter 13.Literary gossip, literary theory, literary pragmatics. (1994)
159
Chapter 14.Literary pragmatics and the alternative Great Expectations. (1994)
179
Chapter 15.Listening to literary scholarship: Models and tones of voice. (1994)
195
Chapter 16.Review: Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction: The linguistic representation of speech and consciousness. (1995)
207
Chapter 17.The sociocultural turn in English studies. (1995)
215
Chapter 18.Why is literature central [to foreign language education]? (1995)
231
Chapter 19.Literature in a university language department. (1995)
249
Chapter 20.Pragmatics humanized, and some general implications for English departments. (1997)
275
Chapter 21.Modernist readings mediated: Dickens and the new worlds of later generations. (1999)
287
Chapter 22.A historical but non-determinist pragmatics of literary communication. (2001)
293
Chapter 23.Review: Jacob L. Mey, When voices clash: A study in literary pragmatics. (2001)
323
Chapter 24.Communication: A counterbalance to professional specialization. (2001)
327
Chapter 25.Reader-learners: Children’s novels and participatory pedagogy. (2002).
343
References
373
Index
393
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