Language, Discourse and Literature
Language, Discourse and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics by Ronald Carter
English | 24 Nov. 1988 | ISBN: 0415119537 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 24 Nov. 1988 | ISBN: 0415119537 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.