Pragmatics and Literature
Editors
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.
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 35] 2019. xiv, 225 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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List of tables | p. ix
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List of figures | p. xi
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Notes on contributors | p. xii
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Chapter 1. IntroductionSiobhan Chapman and Billy Clark | pp. 1–20
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Chapter 2. Marked forms and indeterminate implicatures in Ernest Hemingway’s Fiesta: The Sun Also RisesSiobhan Chapman | pp. 21–43
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Chapter 3. A Levinsonian account of irony in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ ClubSteven Pattison | pp. 45–71
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Chapter 4. What the /fʌk/? An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a scene from The WireErica Gold and Dan McIntyre | pp. 73–91
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Chapter 5. Misleading and relevance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth NightKate Scott | pp. 93–114
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Chapter 6. Lexical pragmatics in the context of structural parallelismAndrew Caink | pp. 115–137
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Chapter 7. “Lazy reading” and “half-formed things”: Indeterminacy and responses to Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingBilly Clark | pp. 139–164
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Chapter 8. Mapping the texture of the Berlin Wall: Metonymy, layered worlds, and critical Implicatures in Sarah Kirsch’s poem “Naturschutzgebiet/nature reserve”Chantelle Warner | pp. 165–190
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Chapter 9. James Hogg’s and Walter Scott’s Scottishness: Varying perceptions of (im)politeness in negotiating EnglishnessBarbara Leonardi | pp. 191–213
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Name index | pp. 215–217
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Subject index | pp. 219–225
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics