Linguistics should make significant contributions to literary and critical the-ory, but has failed to do so. This paper investigates the reasons for the failure and suggests an approach based in Relevance Theory for a working relation-ship between literary studies and pragmatics. Literary critics have misappro-priated linguistic terminology and theories, because their model of language is outdated, and because they blur the distinction between scientific theo-ries and interpretive frameworks—contexts in which assumptions are highly salient. Following an outline of Relevance Theory, an application of rele-vance stylistics demonstrates the distinctions between theories and interpre-tive frameworks, and how they can reinforce one another. La l...
There has been some discussion about how far relevance theory can help in analysing the interpretat...
The present study aims at presenting a thorough account of the field termed literary pragmatics whic...
This book considers the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processe...
Abstract Linguistics should make significant contributions to literary and critical theory, but h...
It was a commonplace among traditional linguists and literary scholars that their disciplines were f...
A linguistic analysis of literature has caused debates among linguists and between linguists and lit...
The thesis that linguistic science can be related to the art of literary criticism is a provocative ...
This essay aims to show how Relevance Theory from the Philosophy of Language can be used in literary...
I shall respond to Barbara MacMahon’s (1999) objections to the ‘integrational account of relevance t...
Relevance theory is arguably the most influential approach to pragmatics to have developed from the ...
The nineteenth century is the age of linguistics, which opened the horizons for human sciences in th...
"It is, I believe, a fairly common experience for those who have engaged for a good many years in th...
The rise of literary theory has brought in stylistic obscurity and arguments full of theoretical dis...
The present paper aims to produce a detailed account of the term ‘pragmatics' and explore, by presen...
The thesis aims to contribute to literary studies by characterising literary interpretation not as a...
There has been some discussion about how far relevance theory can help in analysing the interpretat...
The present study aims at presenting a thorough account of the field termed literary pragmatics whic...
This book considers the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processe...
Abstract Linguistics should make significant contributions to literary and critical theory, but h...
It was a commonplace among traditional linguists and literary scholars that their disciplines were f...
A linguistic analysis of literature has caused debates among linguists and between linguists and lit...
The thesis that linguistic science can be related to the art of literary criticism is a provocative ...
This essay aims to show how Relevance Theory from the Philosophy of Language can be used in literary...
I shall respond to Barbara MacMahon’s (1999) objections to the ‘integrational account of relevance t...
Relevance theory is arguably the most influential approach to pragmatics to have developed from the ...
The nineteenth century is the age of linguistics, which opened the horizons for human sciences in th...
"It is, I believe, a fairly common experience for those who have engaged for a good many years in th...
The rise of literary theory has brought in stylistic obscurity and arguments full of theoretical dis...
The present paper aims to produce a detailed account of the term ‘pragmatics' and explore, by presen...
The thesis aims to contribute to literary studies by characterising literary interpretation not as a...
There has been some discussion about how far relevance theory can help in analysing the interpretat...
The present study aims at presenting a thorough account of the field termed literary pragmatics whic...
This book considers the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processe...