Language and verbal art revisited : linguistic approaches to the study of literature
Presents papers on a variety of aspects of the language-literature connection, and approaches it from diverse perspectives and methodological frameworks, including Systemic Functional Linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, ethnolinguistics, cultural and translation studies.
287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781845530945, 1845530942
144595084
Introduction 1. Ruqaiya Hasan Private pleasure, public discourse: Reflections in engaging with literature 2. Donna R. Miller Construing the 'primitive' primitively: grammatical parallelism as patterning and positioning strategy in D.H. Lawrence 3. David G. Butt Thought Experiments in Verbal Art: Examples from Modernism 4. Monica Turci The meaning of 'dark' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 5. Carol Taylor Torsello Projection in literary and in non-literary texts 6. Bill Louw Collocation as the determinant of Verbal Art 7. Jean Michel Adam & Ute Heidmann Text linguistics and Comparative literature: Towards an interdisciplinary approach to written tales: Angela Carter's translations of Perrault 8. Mirella Agorni Translation teaching and methodology: A linguistic analysis of a literary text 9. Anne Betten Deconstructing standard syntax: Tendencies in modern German prose writing 10. Sandro M. Moraldo Kanak sprak: The linguistic features of Turkish migrants' communicative style in Feridun Zaimo lu's works 11. Maria Jose Rodrigo Mora Debating the function of language in poetry: Meta-textual musings in the Spanish 50s generation