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

    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 balladic poetry; speech presentation; the interactive properties of metre; the communicative context of author/reader. Among the texts examined are novels, poetry and drama by major twentieth-century writers such as Joyce, Auden, Pinter and Hopkins, as well as examples from Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.

    Each chapter has a wide range of exercises for practical analysis, an extensive glossary and a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading. The book will be particularly useful to undergraduate students of English and applied linguistics and advanced students of modern languages or English as a foreign language.

    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

    Biography

    Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson