1st Edition

The Pragmatics of Style

Edited By Leo Hickey Copyright 1990
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

In the general area of style study or stylistics there is no shortage of ideas, definitions or published works. It is hoped, in the present volume, to contribute to the prosperity of the discipline mainly by clarifying and exemplifying how pragmatic considerations may be relevant to any study of style, in the conviction that pragmastylistics is more interesting and useful than stylistics on its... Read more

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

Biography

Hickey, Leo