The Pragmatics of Fiction

Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse

By: Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H Jucker

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Paperback | 30 April 2021

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304 Pages

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Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of 'We Shall Overcome', this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the performative elements that create and shape characters for an audience.

By exploring fictional language, the book investigates different forms of interpersonal communication, such as politeness and impoliteness, as well as the nature of poetic language and the language of emotion. With exercises, discussion topics, suggestions for small-scale research projects and further reading, it shows just how fascinating a challenge fictional language can pose to pragmatics, and illustrates the richness of fictional language as a source of data for pragmatic research.

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Overall, this book is well structured, convincingly argued and comprehensibly written. As Locher and Jucker state, The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse has successfully concepturalised itself such that "any student interested in ?ction and pragmatics in general can bene?t from it".--Huihui Jiang, Shanghai International Studies University & Yunhan Hao and Huadong Li, Shanghai Maritime University "Journal of Pragmatics"

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