Critical Analysis of Fiction: Essays in Discourse Stylistics |
Contents
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| 29 | |
Henry Jamess The Turn of the Screw | 41 |
Margaret Atwoods Surfacing | 65 |
Ideological Worlds and their Interrelationships | 83 |
Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights | 93 |
Charles Dickenss Hard Times | 107 |
John Fowles A Maggot | 121 |
The Cognitive Processing of Ideological Worlds | 139 |
John Fowles and the Pedagogy of Discourse Stylistics | 149 |
Towards a Cognitive Theory of Value in Literature | 161 |
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alethic analysis Anti-Language assumptions axiological Ayscough background baton charges believe Bounderby Casaubon Catherine cavern chapter characters Charles cognitive concept critical discourse analysis Dan Sperber deontic Derry Dolezel Dorothea Eliot epistemic Eveline Eveline's evocational processing example fact feminine fictional world final Fortnum Fowler French Lieutenant's Woman George Eliot George Eliot's governess Gradgrind Halliday Halliday's Heathcliff his/her ideological structure ideological worlds ideology implicatures implicit inferences inferential processing instance interpretation John Fowles language León linguistic modality literary Lockwood London Lordship marchers masculine metaphorical Middlemarch modal narrative narrator narrator's negative manipulation novel Paisleyites passage patriarchal Plarr point of view police polyphonic positive manipulation presuppositions process of schema propositions reader reading reality realized Rebecca relationship relevance role s/he Saavedra scene schema accommodation schema construction schemata semiotic sentence social source domain speaker's Sperber and Wilson's strategy Sunday Express theory unrealized units utterance values verb view of Sarah world-view Wuthering Heights
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