The Pragmatics of Fiction : : Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse / / Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker.
Presents pragmatics as a framework to analyse the discourse of fictionDraws on a range of fictional genres including novels, plays, fan fiction, poems, lyrics, movies and TV seriesEach chapter includes an introduction and conclusion, a list of key concepts, exercises and suggestions for further read...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- To readers
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription conventions
- Part I The pragmatics of fiction as communication
- 1 Fiction and pragmatics
- 2 Fiction and non-fiction
- 3 Literature as communication
- Part II The pragmatics of story worlds
- 4 Genres of fiction
- 5 The narrative core
- 6 Character creation
- Part III Themes in the pragmatics of fiction
- 7 The performance of fiction
- 8 Relational work and (im/politeness) ideologies
- 9 The language of emotion
- 10 Poetic language
- 11 Fiction, pragmatics and future research
- Glossary
- Index