Literary Pragmatics (Routledge Revivals)

Roger D. Sell

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317565185
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Languages & Linguistics
• Categoría: Linguistics

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity. This has now radically changed.

'Pragmatics' could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and its users. This volume, first published in 1991, seeks to reposition literary activity at the centre of that study. The internationally renowned contributors draw together two main streams. On the one hand, there are concerns which are close to the syntax and semantics of mainstream linguistics, and on the other, there are concerns ranging towards anthropological linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics.

Literary Pragmatics represents an antidote to the fragmenting specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the twentieth century. This book will be of lasting value to students of linguistics, literature and society.

Roger D. Sell discusses the reissue of Literary Pragmatics here: http://www.routledge.com/articles/roger_d._sell_discusses_the_reissue_of_literary_pragmatics/

Índice

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Literary Pragmatics An Introduction
• 1 On the Interpretability of Texts in General and of Literary Texts in Particular
• 2 Cross-Cultural Problems in the Perception of Literature
• 3 Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective
• 4 How Indirect Discourse Means Syntax, semantics, poetics, pragmatics
• 5 Poems as Text and Discourse: The poetics of Philip Larkin1
• 6 Understanding Metaphor in Literature: Towards an empirical study1
• 7 But what is Literature?: Toward a descriptive definition of literature
• 8 Two-Way Pragmatics From world to text and back
• 9 On Free and Latent Semantic Energy
• 10 Textualization
• 11 What Difference do the Circumstances of Publication Make to the Interpretation of a Literary Work?
• 12 The Politeness of Literary Texts
• 13 How does the Writer of a Dramatic Text Interact with his Audiences? On the pragmatics of literary communication
• Bibliography
• Index