Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective
Adrian Pilkington
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 75] 2000. xiv, 214 pp.
Adrian Pilkington
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adrian Pilkington plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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2001 Non-lexicalised concepts and degrees of effability: Poetic thoughts and the attraction of what is not in the dictionary Linguistic Approaches to Poetry, Michaux, Christine and Marc Dominicy (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Some concepts — and hence the thoughts that contain them — are relatively ineffable. Some literary communication nevertheless attempts to eff these concepts. This article is interested in the nature of such concepts and the extent to which pragmatics can deal with them. I discuss the idea,… read more