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Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

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  1. Siobhan Chapman

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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  2. Billy Clark

    1. Middlesex University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

    • Siobhan Chapman, Billy Clark
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark’s Telling

    • Andrew Caink
    Pages 16-35

  4. ‘Oh, do let’s talk about something else-’: What Is Not Said and What Is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September

    • Siobhan Chapman
    Pages 36-54

  5. Before and After Chekhov: Inference, Interpretation and Evaluation

    • Billy Clark
    Pages 55-69

  6. Outsourcing: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts

    • Anne Furlong
    Pages 70-89

  7. Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative

    • Barbara MacMahon
    Pages 90-110

  8. Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989)

    • Lisa Nahajec
    Pages 111-131

  9. Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading

    • Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
    Pages 132-151

  10. ’I’ve never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life’: The Co-Construction of Identity in the Reading Group

    • David Peplow
    Pages 152-171

  11. The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley’s Secret

    • Ruth Schuldiner
    Pages 172-191

  12. Literature as Discourse and Dialogue: Rapport Management (Facework) in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s ‘Blackeye and His Donkey’

    • Chantelle Warner
    Pages 192-209

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 210-229
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In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Siobhan Chapman

  • Middlesex University, UK

    Billy Clark

About the editors

Andrew Caink, University of Westminster, UK Anne Furlong, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Barbara McMahon, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Lisa Nahajec, Liverpool Hope University, UK Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou, West Chester University, USA David Peplow, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Ruth Schuldiner, University of Oxford, UK Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA

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