Pragmatics of Fiction / / Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker.

Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fictional language allows...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 616 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the handbook series
  • Preface
  • Table of contents
  • 1. Introducing Pragmatics of Fiction: Approaches, trends and developments
  • 2. Participation structure in fictional discourse: Authors, scriptwriters, audiences and characters
  • 3. The pragmatics of the genres of fiction
  • 4. Fictional characterisation
  • 5. The role of dialogue in fiction
  • 6. Narrative perspectives on voice in fiction
  • 7. Pragmatics of style in fiction
  • 8. Oral features in fiction
  • 9. Doing dialects in dialogues: Regional, social and ethnic variation in fiction
  • 10. Multilingualism in fiction
  • 11. The pragmatics of estrangement in fantasy and science fiction
  • 12. Pragmatics and the translation of fiction
  • 13. Subtitling and dubbing in telecinematic text
  • 14. (Im)politeness in fiction
  • 15. (Im)politeness and telecinematic discourse
  • 16. Stance in fiction
  • 17. Language and emotion in fiction
  • 18. Language change and fiction
  • Bionotes
  • Index of authors of scholarly work
  • Index of authors of fictional work
  • Index of fictional sources
  • Subject index