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Publication details [#20139]

Hickey, Leo, ed. 1989. The pragmatics of style. Routledge. viii + 207 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | comprehension | pragmatics | speech | style

Annotation

The articles in this volume clarify and illustrate the relevance of pragmatic considerations to any study of style.

Articles in this volume

Hickey, Leo. Introduction. 1–12

Turner, George W. Sharing, shaping, showing: The deep uses of language. 15–27

Blakemore, Diane. Linguistic form and pragmatic interpretation: The explicit and the implicit. 28–51

Hickey, Leo. The style of topicalization, how formal is it? 52–70

Klein-Andreu, Flora. Speech priorities. 73–86

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. The pragmastylistics of hypothetical discourse. 87–105

Selting, Margret. Speech styles in conversation as an interactive achievement. 106–132

Thomas, Jenny A. Discourse control in confrontational interaction. 133–156

Chapman, Raymond. The reader as listener: Dialect and relationships in `The mayor of Casterbridge'. 159–178

Schaar, Claes. Inscriptions in `Paradise Lost': Five variants of a vertical context system. 179–190

Enkvist, Nils Erik and Gun Leppiniemi. Anticipation and disappointment: An experiment in protocolled reading of Auden's `Gare du midi'. 191–207

Reviewed by

Sell, Roger D. 1991. Review of $The pragmatics of style.