Language, Discourse and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics

✍ Scribed by Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson

• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This introductory text is a companion volume to "Language and Literature", integrating language and literary study to show how discourse analysis can contribute to an understanding of the creative use of the larger patterns of language. Making extensive use of progressive practical exercises designed to promote fully integrated literary and linguistic competence, the book draws on drama from Shakespeare to Pinter, poetry from Donne to Auden and novels from Joyce to non-canonical authors such as Flann O'Brien.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Editors’ Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
I The Growth of Stylistics 1960–1980......Page 10
II Literary and Linguistic Stylistics......Page 13
III Developments in Discourse Analysis......Page 17
IV Literature as Social Discourse......Page 19
V Towards a Theory of Discourse Stylistics......Page 21
VI Using This Book: A Reader’s Guide......Page 25
References: Introduction......Page 26
Introduction to Chapter 1......Page 28
I A Paraphrase......Page 30
II A Commentary......Page 31
(i) The Structure of the Discourse......Page 36
(ii) Speech Acts and Implicatures......Page 38
(iii) ‘Face’ and Situational Power......Page 41
IV Interpretation: Three grades......Page 42
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 1......Page 43
Notes: Chapter 1......Page 46
References: Chapter 1......Page 47
Introduction to Chapter 2......Page 48
I General Framework......Page 50
II The Notion of Phatic Communion: Background Remarks......Page 51
III A Framework for the Analysis of Phatic Communion......Page 52
IV The Analysis......Page 53
V Conclusion......Page 58
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 2......Page 59
References: Chapter 2......Page 62
Introduction to Chapter 3......Page 64
I From Intuitions to Analysis......Page 66
(i) Intuitions......Page 73
(ii) Language Analysis......Page 74
III Conclusion: Pedagogical Aims......Page 75
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 3......Page 76
References: Chapter 3......Page 79
Introduction to Chapter 4......Page 82
4 Polyphony in Hard Times......Page 84
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 4......Page 96
References: Chapter 4......Page 98
Introduction to Chapter 5......Page 100
5 Dickens’s Social Semiotic: the Modal Analysis of Ideological Structure......Page 102
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 5......Page 112
Notes: Chapter 5......Page 116
References: Chapter 5......Page 117
Introduction to Chapter 6......Page 118
6 Semantic Relational Structuring in Milton’s Areopagitica......Page 120
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 6......Page 125
Notes: Chapter 6......Page 126
References: Chapter 6......Page 127
Introduction to Chapter 7......Page 128
7 Discourse-Centred Stylistics: a Way Forward?......Page 130
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 7......Page 137
Notes: Chapter 7......Page 141
References: Chapter 7......Page 142
Introduction to Chapter 8......Page 144
II What Should We Study—Text or Performance?......Page 146
(i) Speech Acts......Page 150
(ii) Presuppositions......Page 152
(iii) General Discourse Relations......Page 154
(iv) The Co-operative Principle in Conversation......Page 156
(v) More General Discourse Relations......Page 160
IV Trouble in the Works’......Page 162
V Conclusion......Page 167
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 8......Page 168
Notes: Chapter 8......Page 172
References: Chapter 8......Page 173
Introduction to Chapter 9......Page 176
I General Framework......Page 178
II Outline of the Analytic Model......Page 179
(ii) Indicate Pessimism......Page 183
(v) Apologize......Page 184
(vii) Acknowledge the Debt......Page 185
IV The Analysis......Page 186
V Concluding Remarks......Page 192
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 9......Page 193
References: Chapter 9......Page 199
Introduction to Chapter 10......Page 200
10 Analysing Conversation in Fiction: an Example from Joyce’s Portrait......Page 202
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 10......Page 213
References: Chapter 10......Page 216
Introduction to Chapter 11......Page 218
11 Subject Construction as Stylistic Strategy in Gerard Manley Hopkins......Page 220
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 11......Page 235
Notes: Chapter 11......Page 236
References: Chapter 11......Page 237
Introduction to Chapter 12......Page 240
12 Metre and Discourse......Page 242
I Linguistic Levels......Page 243
II Metre and Rhythm......Page 244
(i) Mnemonic......Page 248
(ii) Deictic......Page 249
(iv) Mimetic......Page 251
(vi) Compositional......Page 253
(vii) Ideological......Page 254
Suggestions for Further Work: Chapter 12......Page 256
Notes: Chapter 12......Page 260
References: Chapter 12......Page 262
Introduction to Chapter 13......Page 264
13 ‘Working Effects with Words’—Whose Words? Stylistics and Reader Intertextuality......Page 266
Notes: Chapter 13......Page 281
References: Chapter 13......Page 282
Glossary......Page 284
References: Glossary......Page 300
Index......Page 302

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Лингвостилистика и лингвопоэтика;