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Publication details [#36729]

Bex, A.R. 1992. 'Genre as context'. Journal of Literary Semantics 21 (1) : 1–16.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | genre | interpretation | literature | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Julius Groos Verlag

ISBN

0341-7638

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JLSE/html

Annotation

This paper deals with literary works, their meanings, and the role of texual and extra-textual context. Relevance theory is supplemented with a stronger view of the functional potential of language.