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1 online resource (x, 166 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics
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Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-162) and indexes. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
Cover -- COVER -- COPYRIGHT -- Contents -- Series Editors8217; Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Pragmatics and Stylistics -- 2 Pragmatic Theories -- 3 Signposts -- 4 Narrative Voices -- 5 Direct and Indirect Discourse -- 6 Politeness and Literary Discourse -- 7 Relevance and Echoic Discourse -- 8 Tropes and Parody -- 9 Symbolism -- 10 Psychonarration -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index to Literary Authors and Works Cited -- Last Page. |
| Summary |
This volume is a study of the language of literary texts. It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial authority and character focalisation. The book includes a description of Grice's Co-operative Principle and its contribution to the interpretation of literary texts, and considers Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory, with particular stress on the valuable insights into irony and varieties of indirect discourse it offers. Bakhtin's theories are introduced, and related to the more explicitly linguistic Relevance Theory. Metaphor, irony and parody are examined primarily as pragmatic phenomena, and there is a strand of sociolinguistic interest particularly in relation to the theories of Labov and Bakhtin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language and languages -- Style.
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Language and languages -- Style. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Black, Elizabeth. Pragmatic stylistics. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006 0748620400 0748620419 (OCoLC)62177696 |
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0748626379 (electronic book) |
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9780748626373 (electronic book) |
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0748620400 (cased) |
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9780748620401 (cased) |
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0748620419 (paperback) |
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9780748620418 (paperback) |
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