The Pragmatics of Style - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415026172 ISBN 13 : 9780415026178

Editeur : Routledge, 1989

Synopsis

This book explores the relationships between pragmatics and style studies. It investigates how pragmatic considerations can explain how language-users make their choices, and the effects on the hearers and readers of the choices made. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of linguistics, literary studies and philosophy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 own. The starting point must be a brief survey of the definitions and style and stylistics. The very form of the latter term suggests a scientific and orderly, rather than an intuitive or impressionistic, investigation of style. There are two separate levels of study: one, a general, methodical and scientific discipline; the other, an application of its methods or postulates to the analysis of the ‘style’ of a specific utterance, text, speaker, writer, movement or period. It is clear that, in order to approach either, we must first attempt to understand style.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415026172
• ISBN 13: 9780415026178
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Éditeur: Hickey Leo
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible