29.4854, Books: Railway Discourse: Adami

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Subject: Railway Discourse: Adami

 


Title: Railway Discourse 
Subtitle: Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone
World 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://cambridgescholars.com/railway-discourse/ 


Author: Esterino Adami

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527506244 Pages: 161 Price: U.K. £ 58.99


Abstract:

This volume examines the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and
linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic
narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of
methods and frameworks. Situated within the “Discourse, Pragmatics and
Sociolinguistics” collection, the book critically engages with significant
areas such as discourse and narrative structure. Interpreting the railway as a
powerful cultural and imaginary site in the English-speaking world that
traverses a range of creative domains, this study explores the ways in which
the train and its structures, symbols and metaphors are textually rendered and
the type of stylistic effects they generate in readers. It introduces, frames
and discusses the idea of railway discourse and focuses on specific case
studies (The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, the graphic novel Snowpiercer
and Monisha Rajesh’s Around India in 80 Trains). In particular, it considers
how a compartment window can constrain, and shape, the point of view of a
narrator, the way in which science fiction trains are conceptually imagined,
and the intercultural implications of rail travel writing in India today. To
analyse the role and meaning of the railway in these texts, and compare them
with others, this work adopts and adapts analytical tools and critical
concepts from the integration of different fields, such as stylistics and
linguistics, postcolonial criticism and literary studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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