1st Edition

Language, Discourse and Literature An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics

Edited By Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson Copyright 1989
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and... Read more
Introduction 1 Changing the Guard at Elsinore 2 Phatic Communion and Fictional Dialogue 3 Poetry and Conversation: An Essay in Discourse Analysis 4 Polyphony in Hard Times 5 Dickens’s Social Semiotic: The Modal Analysis of Ideological Structure 6 Semantic Relational Structuring in Milton’ s Areopagitica 7 Discourse-Centred Stylistics: A Way Forward 8 Discourse Analysis and the Analysis of Drama 9 Politeness Phenomena in Ionesco’s The Lesson 10 Analysing Conversation in Fiction: an Example from Joyce’s Portrait 11 Subject Construction as Stylistic Strategy in Gerard Manley Hopkins 12 Metre and Discourse 13 ‘Working Effects with Words’—Whose Words?: Stylistics and Reader Intertextuality

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Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson