Pragmatics of Style

This book clarifies and exemplifies how pragmatic considerations are relevant to any study of style and stylistics, in the conviction that pragmastylistics is more interesting and useful than stylistics on its own. There are two separate levels of study: one, a general, methodical and scientific discipline; the other, an application of its methods or postulates to the analysis of the 'style' of a specific utterance, text, speaker, writer, movement or period. It is clear that, in order to approach either, we must first attempt to understand style.

List of contents

1. Style in Communication and Comprehension 1. Sharing, Shaping, Showing:The Deep Uses of Language George W. Turner 2. Linguistic Form and Pragmatic Interpretation: the Explicit and the Implicit Diane Blakemore 3. The Style of Topicalization, How Formal Is It? Leo Hickey 2. Style in Speech and Situation 4. Speech Priorities Flora Klein-Andreu 5. The Pragmastylistics of Hypothetical Discourse Carmen Silva-Corvalán 6. Speech Styles in Conversation as an Interactive Achievement Margret Selting 7. Discourse Control in Confrontational Interaction Jenny A. Thomas 3. Style in Literature and Learning 8. The Reader as Listener: Dialect and Relationships in The Mayor of Casterbridge Raymond Chapman 9. Inscriptions in Paradise Lost: Five Variants of a Vertical Context System Claes Schaar 10. Anticipation and Disappointment: An Experiment in Protocolled Reading of Auden’s Gare du Midi Nils Erik Enkvist and Gun Leppiniemi

About the author

Hickey, Leo

Product details

• Authors: Leo Hickey
• Assisted by: Leo Hickey (Editor), Hickey Leo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780415723749
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72374-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literature: history and criticism