Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fictional language allows scholars to review key concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance, dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages, the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.
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Conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects' identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely...
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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Conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects' identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely opposition, in order to explain the mechanism through which satire can form identity.
Intro -- Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Otherness and identity construction -- Chapter 3. Otherness, humor and satire -- Chapter 4. Humor, satire and identity construction -- Chapter 5. Construction of racial and ethnic identities via satire: Construction of racial and ethnic identities via satire -- Otherness in racial and ethnic identities -- ʿUbayd-i Zākānī's Ethics of the Aristocrats -- Chapter 6. Construction of national identities via satire -- Otherness and national identities -- Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters -- Chapter 7. Construction of religious identities via satire -- Otherness and religious identities -- Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub -- ʿUbayd-i Zākānī -- Chapter 8. Construction of gender identities via satire -- Otherness in gender identities -- Construction of gender identities via satire -- Juvenal's Satire VI -- Swift and Montagu -- Taʾdīb al-Nisvān and Astarābādī's Maʿāyib al-Rijāl -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
