Pragmatic stylistic study of literary discourse

Author: Feng Zongxin
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book belongs to interdisciplinary research: 1) Taking the communicative characteristics of literary discourse as the starting point, it proposes an analytical model of pragmatic stylistics based on the integration of stylistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis; 2) It focuses on the literary genre—drama—which has been the least explored in literary criticism and stylistic studies, delving into the features of dramatic language and the multiple attributes of dramatic texts, bringing the long-neglected dramatic language—stage directions—into the scope of pragmatic stylistic research; 3) Through macro and micro analyses of three plays by the Western absurd drama representative author Eugène Ionesco, it highlights the different rhetorical strategies the author employs for different functional readers in the same text, as well as the complex author-reader relationship in the dramatic discourse. This research broadens the scope and level of research in pragmatics and stylistics, while also making certain contributions to Western drama criticism and literary studies.