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1 online resource (xii, 396 pages). |
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FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; volume10
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FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 10.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which develop between literary writers and those who respond to them. Literary writers, through their handling of deixis, evaluative and modal expressions, tellability, politeness norms, and genre expectations, activate the same interpersonal function of language as do other language users, and respondents' hermeneutic contextualizations of literary texts are, as a pragmatic procedure, no less standard. Not that context is completely determinative. In Sell's account, human beings are profoundly influenced by society, but can sometimes enter into co-adaptations with it. Like other people, literary writers and their respondents are "social individuals", who themselves benefit from respecting each other's relative autonomy. As well as explaining these theoretical positions, the papers selected here offered critical re-assessments of some major writers, including Chaucer and Dickens. They also suggested new ways of dealing with literary texts in literary and language education at all levels"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Chapter 4. Disciplinary fragmentation and integration: Grammatology and literary pragmatics1. Introduction; 2. The mid-nineteenth century; 3. Linguistic thought, 1870-1970; 4. Anglo-American literary thought, 1870-1970; 5. Grammatology; 6. Literary Pragmatics; 7. Looking ahead; Chapter 5. English departments in British higher education: A view from abroad; Chapter 6. Review article : Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style; David Birch and Michael O'Toole (eds), Functions of style; and Alan Swingewood, Sociological poetics and aesthetic theory. Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style |
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David Birch andChapter 7. How can literary pragmaticists develop empirical methods?: The problem of modal and evaluative expressions in literary texts; Chapter 8. Literary genre and history: Questions from a literary pragmaticist for socio-semioticians; 1. The nature of the questions to be posed; 2. The neoclassical decontextualization of literary genres; 3. The modern emphasis on individual vision at the expense of genre; 4. Rehabilitations of genre; 5. Literary pragmatics; 6. Four problems for a literary pragmatic account of genre; 7. The socio-semiotic view of genre; 8. An example |
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9. Postscript, 1991Chapter 9. Review : Balz Engler, Poetry and community; Chapter 10. Review : John Stephens and Ruth Waterhouse, Literature, language, and change: From Chaucer to the present; Chapter 11. Review article : Simulative panhumanism: A challenge to current linguistic and literary thought: Michael Shapiro, The sense of change: Language as history; Nicole Ward Jouve, White woman speaks with forked tongue: Criticism as autobiography; ; 1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; 5.; 6.; Chapter 12. Postdisciplinary philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics |
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1. The inadequacy of synchronic, normative pragmatics2. The politeness of literary writers; 3. Changes in pragmatic processing; 4. Postdisciplinarity versus over-specialization; Chapter 13. Literary gossip, literary theory, literary pragmatics; Chapter 14. Literary pragmatics and the alternative Great Expectations; Chapter 15. Listening to literary scholarship: Models and tones of voice; Chapter 16. Review : Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction: The linguistic representation of speech and consciousness; Chapter 17. The sociocultural turn in English studies |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Authors and readers.
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Authors and readers. |
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Criticism.
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Criticism. |
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Discourse analysis, Literary.
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Discourse analysis, Literary. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sell, Roger D. A humanizing literary pragmatics. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019 9789027204233 (DLC) 2019027973 |
| ISBN |
9789027262028 (electronic book) |
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9027262020 (electronic book) |
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9789027204233 (hardcover) |
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9027204233 (hardcover) |
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