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Linguistic Perspectives on Literature (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) (Paperback)
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Linguistic Perspectives on Literature (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
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Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse
discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which
linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In
their introductory chapter, the editors of this collection of
essays, by linguists on either side of the Atlantic, enunciate a
bold stance that defines the theoretical relationship between
linguistics and literature, delimits what should be considered a
linguistic analysis of literature, and explains how such an
analysis is related to current theories of readership and literary
criticism. The editors' theory of the relationship between
linguistic and literary studies stipulates an eclectic rather than
a holistic approach, and the essays they have gathered together
reflect this belief. The contributions include such varied
approaches as transformational grammar, text grammar and speech act
theory, and the topics analysed include many that are at the heart
of literature, such as topicalization, imagery, figurative
language, ambiguity, and the play on words through puns. The
anthology as a whole illustrates how linguistic theory illuminates
the very nature of literary language. It also gives evidence of the
new insights into literature that have arisen from a close analysis
of the language in which the literature is encoded.
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