30.4222, Books: A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Sell

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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:49:59
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Sell

 


Title: A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics 
Subtitle: Theory, criticism, education. Selected papers 1985-2002 
Series Title: FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 10  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/fillm.10 


Author: Roger D. Sell

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262028 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262028 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262028 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204233 Pages: 396 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204233 Pages: 396 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204233 Pages: 396 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies,
historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity.
This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which
develop between literary writers and those who respond to them.

Literary writers, through their handling of deixis, evaluative and modal
expressions, tellability, politeness norms, and genre expectations, activate
the same interpersonal function of language as do other language users, and
respondents’ hermeneutic contextualizations of literary texts are no less
standard as a pragmatic procedure. Not that context is completely
determinative. In Sell’s account, human beings are profoundly influenced by
society, but can sometimes enter into co-adaptations with it. Like other
people, literary writers and their respondents are “social individuals”, who
themselves benefit from respecting each other’s relative autonomy.

As well as explaining these theoretical positions, the papers selected here
offered critical re-assessments of some major writers, including Chaucer and
Dickens. They also suggested new ways of dealing with literary texts in
literary and language education at all levels.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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