Idioms in Salman Rushdie's Novels - A Phraseo-stylistic Approach

This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie's eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdie's idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main tenets of phraseo-stylistics are addressed. Then the physical presence of idiomatic expressions in Salman Rushdie's novels is examined and, finally, through close readings and textual analyses of Salman Rushdie's works, the functionality of idioms employed by the author in his prosaic works is determined. This study establishes Salman Rushdie's prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts.

List of contents

Contents: Phraseology- Idioms - Salman Rushdie novels - Stylistcs - Phraseo-stylistics.

About the author

Grzegorz Szpila is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He specialises in phraseology and paremiology, and in particular, the phraseo-stylistics of contemporary fiction in English.

Product details

• Authors: Grzegorz Szpila
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9783631637401
• ISBN: 978-3-631-63740-1
• No. of pages: 293
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 21 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture; Text ¿ Meaning ¿ Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics