Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysi

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activi

In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled

In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of l

In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary works that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years and have in some