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Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and
Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of 'We Shall Overcome',
this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the
performative elements that create and shape characters for an
audience. By exploring fictional language, the book investigates
different forms of interpersonal communication, such as politeness
and impoliteness, as well as the nature of poetic language and the
language of emotion. With exercises, discussion topics, suggestions
for small-scale research projects and further reading, it shows
just how fascinating a challenge fictional language can pose to
pragmatics, and illustrates the richness of fictional language as a
source of data for pragmatic research.
Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and
Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of 'We Shall Overcome',
this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the
performative elements that create and shape characters for an
audience. By exploring fictional language, the book investigates
different forms of interpersonal communication, such as politeness
and impoliteness, as well as the nature of poetic language and the
language of emotion. With exercises, discussion topics, suggestions
for small-scale research projects and further reading, it shows
just how fascinating a challenge fictional language can pose to
pragmatics, and illustrates the richness of fictional language as a
source of data for pragmatic research.
This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies.
Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this
guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and
teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social,
cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies
including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse,
this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse
markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through
focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data,
students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well
as covering recent work at the interface of between language and
literature.
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