Pragmatics and Fiction

1985-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Jon-K. Adams
Release : 1985-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Pragmatics and Fiction written by Jon-K. Adams. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an empirical corpus and is shown to produce a systematic set of behavioral measures which are potentially productive for cross-cultural comparison.

Pragmatics and Fiction

1985-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Jon-K. Adams
Release : 1985-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Pragmatics and Fiction written by Jon-K. Adams. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse. These differences derive mainly from the creation of a fictional figure who narrates the text and who, in turn, addresses his narrative to a fictional audience. Since these figures become the language users of the fictional text and, therefore, displace the actual writer and reader from the communicative context, they dominate the text’s pragmatic features. After elaborating a description of fiction from the point of view of these fictional language users, some of the implications for literary interpretation are taken up, particularly those for reader-oriented criticism.

Pragmatics of Fiction

2017-04-10 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Miriam A. Locher
Release : 2017-04-10
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Pragmatics of Fiction written by Miriam A. Locher. This book was released on 2017-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 scholars to review key concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance, dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages, the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

Fiction and Pragmatics

2023-03-31 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Miriam A. Locher
Release : 2023-03-31
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Fiction and Pragmatics written by Miriam A. Locher. This book was released on 2023-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them as cultural artefacts rich in possibilities to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising. The issues covered are (1) the participation structure of fictional texts, (2) the performance aspect of fictional texts, (3) the interaction between readers and viewers and the fictional texts, as well as (4) the pragmatic effects of drawing on indexical linguistic features for evoking ideologies in characterisation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Pragmatics and Literature

2019-12-15 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Siobhan Chapman
Release : 2019-12-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Pragmatics and Literature written by Siobhan Chapman. This book was released on 2019-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All have a shared focus on applying ideas from specific pragmatic frameworks to understanding the production, interpretation and evaluation of literary texts. A full-length introductory chapter highlights distinctions and contrasts between pragmatic theories, but also brings out complementarities, shared aims and assumptions, and ways in which different pragmatic theories can make different contributions to our understanding of literary texts. The book as a whole encourages a sense of coherence for the field and presents insights from various approaches for systematic comparison. Building on previous work by the editors, the contributors and others, it makes a significant contribution to the growing field of pragmatic literary stylistics.

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