Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Pragmatic Literary Stylistics....Pages 1-15
The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark’s Telling....Pages 16-35
‘Oh, do let’s talk about something else-’: What Is Not Said and What Is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September....Pages 36-54
Before and After Chekhov: Inference, Interpretation and Evaluation....Pages 55-69
Outsourcing: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts....Pages 70-89
Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative....Pages 90-110
Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989)....Pages 111-131
Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading....Pages 132-151
’I’ve never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life’: The Co-Construction of Identity in the Reading Group....Pages 152-171
The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley’s Secret....Pages 172-191
Literature as Discourse and Dialogue: Rapport Management (Facework) in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s ‘Blackeye and His Donkey’....Pages 192-209
Back Matter....Pages 210-229