7.722, Sum: Literary Pragmatics

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Date:  Mon, 20 May 1996 12:21:00 +0200
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Date:  Mon, 20 May 1996 12:21:00 +0200
From:  da at maties.sun.ac.za
Subject:  LITERARY PRAGMATICS

Here is a summary of the all the references that people sent in response to
my request for help with a reading list on Literary Pragmatics (vol-6-677).
I am overwhelmed by the generosity of the people on this list.  Many
thanks to you all.

Traugott, Elizabeth  Closs and   Mary  Louise Pratt.
    1980.     Linguistics for  Students of  Literature.    Harcourt  Brace
     Jovanovich.

Bergner, H.   1995.   The openness of medieval texts.  In Andreas
     H. Jucker  (ed.)  Historical Pragmatics.  John Benjamins, 37
     - 54.

Brimimann-Egger, Werner.   1991.   The friendly reader.  Modes of
     co-operation between  18th century  English poets  and their
     audiences.  Tubingen: Stauffenberg Verlag.

Fitzmaurice, James.   1995.  The language of gender and a textual
     problem  in   Aphra  Behn's  The  Lover.    Neuphilologische
     Mitteilungen 96, 283 - 293.

Herman, David.   1994.   The  Mutt and  Jute dialogue  in Joyce's
     Finnegan's Wake:   Some  Gricean Perspectives.   Style 28.2,
     219 - 241.

Herman, Viamala.    1995.    Dramatic  Discourse.    Dialogue  as
     Interaction in Plays.  London:  Routledge.

Hiraga-Masako K.  and Joanna  Radwanska-Williams (eds.).    1995.
     Literary Pragmatics:   Cognitive  Metaphor and the Structure
     of the  Poetic Text.  Special Issue of Journal of Pragmatics
     24.6.

Kopytko, Roman.  1993.  Polite Discourse in Shakespeare's English.
     Poznan:     Wydawnictwo  Naukowe   Uniwersjtetu  im.    Adam
     Mickiewicza W. Poznania.

Kopytko, Roman.   1995.    Linguistic  Politeness  Strategies  in
     Shakespear's Plays.  In Andreas H. Jucker (ed.).  Historical
     Pragmatics.  Amsterdam:  Benjamins, 515 - 540.

Leech, Geoffrey.  1992.  Pragmatic Principles in Shaw's You Never
     Can Tell.   In  Michael Toolan  (ed.).   Language, Text  and
     Context.   Essays in  Stylistics.  London:  Routledge, 259 -
     278.

Navarro-Errasti, Ma  Pilar.   1995.   Communicative  Clues  in  Sir
     Gawain and the Green Knight in Andreas Jucker (ed.).

Pilkington, Adrian.   1991.   Poetic  Effects.   In Roger D. Sell
     (ed.).  Literary Pragmatics.  London:  Routlege 44 - 61.

Richards, Christine.   1985.    Inferential  Pragmatics  and  the
     literary text.  Journal of Pragmatics 9, 261 - 285.

Sell, Roger D.  1985.  Tellability and Politeness in the Miller's
     Tale:    First  steps  in  literary  pragmatics.    English
     studies:  A Journal of English Language and Literature 66.6,
     496 - 512.

Sell, Roger D.  1985.  Politeness in Chaucer:  Suggestions toward
     a   Methodology    for   Pragmatic   Stylistics.      Studia
     Neophilologica 57, 175 - 185.

Sell, Roger  D.   1986.   Dickens and  the new  historicism:  The
     Polyvocal audience  and discourse  of  Dombey  &  Son:    In
     Hawthorn, Jeremy  (ed.).   The 19th  century British  novel.
     London:  Edward Arnold, 63 - 79.

Sell, Roger  D.  (ed.)  1991.    Literary  Pragmatics.    London:
     Routledge.

Sell, Roger  D.   1991.   Literary genre  and history:  Questions
     from a  literary pragmaticist  for socio-semioticians.    In
     Ventola, Eija  (ed.)  Approaches to the Analysis of Literary
     Discourse.

Sell, Roger  D.   1991.   The Politeness  of literary  texts.  In
     Roger D. Sell (ed.) Literary Pragmatics.  London:  Routlege,
     208 - 224.

Sell, Roger D.  1992.  Teaching Shakespeare on literary pragmatic
     principles.     In  Per  Serritslev  Petersen  ed.  Literary
     Pedagogics after Deconstruction.  Scenarios and Perspectives
     in the  Teaching of  English Literature.  Aarhus:  Aarhus U.
     Press, 9 - 25.

Sell, Roger  D.   1993.   The Difficult Style of the Wasteland. A
     literary -  pragmatic perspective  on modernist  poetry.  In
     Peter Verdonk  (ed.) Twentieth Century Poetry:  From text to
     context.  London:  Routledge, 134 - 158.

Watts, Richard  J.   1981.    The  Pragmalinguistic  Analysis  of
     Narrative Texts.  Narrative Co-operation in Charles Dickens'
     Hard Times.   Studies  in Texts  in English  3.    Tubingen:
     Gunter Narr.

Kuiper, K.  1984.  The Nature of Satire.  Poetics 13:  459 - 473.

Steen, Gerard.   1994.   Understanding  Metaphor  in  Literature.
     Longman.

Rudanko, Juhani.   1993.   Pragmatic  Approaches to  Shakespeare:
     Essays on  Othello, Coriolanus  & Timon  of Athens.  Lanham,
     Maryland:  University Press of America.

Crystal, D.  and Davy,  D.   1969.   Investigating English Style.
     London: Longmans.

Ducrot,  O.,   Schaeffer  J-M.     1995.    Nouveau  Dictionnaire
     Encyclopedique des Sciences et Language.  Editions du Seuil,
     Paris.

Moeschler, J.,  Reboul, A.  1994.  Dictionnaire Encyclopedique de
     Pragmatique.  Editions du Seuil, Paris.

Pratt, M.   Towards  a Speech  Act Theory  of Literary Discourse.
     1977.

Toolan, M. (ed.)  1993.  Language, Text and Context.  Routledge.

In addition, I have been told that Jacob Mey is about to finish a book on
Literary Pragmatics, and that the forthcoming issue of Language and
Literature (to be edited by Adrian Pilkington) will be devoted to Relevance
Theory and Literary Studies.

Many thanks to the following people, all of whom provided helpful advice and
references.

Chad D. Nilep
Charles Scott
Andreas Jucker
Adriano P. Palma
James Vanden Bosch
K. Kuiper
Stefan Malmberg
Wannie Carstens
Juhani Rudanko
Adrian Pilkington
Todd Sieling
Alejandro Brice
Jacqueline Leon
Hartmut Haberland
Douglas Glick
Billy Clark
Michael Toolan

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