Andreas Jucker, Miriam Locher

The Pragmatics of Fiction

Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781474447942
• ISBN-10: 1474447945
• Artikelnr.: 60013679

Autorenporträt

Miriam A. Locher is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Andreas H. Jucker is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. His current research focuses on historical pragmatics, speech act theory, politeness theory and the grammar and history of English. He is editor of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics (with Irma Taavitsainen) and associate editor of the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (Benjamins).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
To readers
Acknowledgments
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
Appendices
Sources