This textbook series provides advanced introductions to the main
areas of study in contemporary Applied Linguistics, with a
principal focus on the theory and practice of language teaching and
language learning and on the processes and problems of language in
use.
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.
Features
* The first pragmatically oriented study of the language of
fictional texts.
* Introduces a range of pragmatic theories and offers a range of
approaches that can be applied to texts.
* Includes examples from literary texts, predominantly from the
twentieth century - unlike many works on pragmatics which use
invented examples.
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