Chapter 7
“Lazy reading” and “half-formed things”
Indeterminacy and responses to Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a
Half-formed Thing
Article outline
- 7.1Introduction
- 7.2
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
- 7.3Pragmatics and indeterminacy
- 7.3.1Explicatures and implicatures
- 7.3.2Open-endedness and spontaneousness
- 7.3.3“Manifestness”
- 7.4“Lazy” readings and other responses
- 7.5Accounting for varying responses
- 7.5.1Explicit content
- 7.5.2Implicatures
- 7.5.3Spontaneousness
- 7.5.4Open-endedness
- 7.5.5Characterising readers and readings
- 7.6Summary
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Notes
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