A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics : Criticism, Theory, Education. Selected Papers 1985-2002.

Intro -- A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Advisory Board -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Tellability and politeness in "The Miller's Tale": First steps in literary pragmatics -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- Chapter 2. Politeness in Chaucer: Suggestions towards a methodology for pragmatic stylistics -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- 8. -- Chapter 3. Review : George L. Dillon, Rhetoric as social imagination: Explorations in the interpersonal function of language. -- Chapter 4. Disciplinary fragmentation and integration: Grammatology and literary pragmatics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The mid-nineteenth century -- 3. Linguistic thought, 1870-1970 -- 4. Anglo-American literary thought, 1870-1970 -- 5. Grammatology -- 6. Literary Pragmatics -- 7. Looking ahead -- Chapter 5. English departments in British higher education: A view from abroad -- Chapter 6. Review article : Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style -- David Birch and Michael O'Toole (eds), Functions of style -- and Alan Swingewood, Sociological poetics and aesthetic theory. Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style -- David Birch and -- Chapter 7. How can literary pragmaticists develop empirical methods?: The problem of modal and evaluative expressions in literary texts -- Chapter 8. Literary genre and history: Questions from a literary pragmaticist for socio-semioticians -- 1. The nature of the questions to be posed -- 2. The neoclassical decontextualization of literary genres -- 3. The modern emphasis on individual vision at the expense of genre -- 4. Rehabilitations of genre -- 5. Literary pragmatics -- 6. Four problems for a literary pragmatic account of genre -- 7. The socio-semiotic view of genre -- 8. An example -- 9. Postscript, 1991.

Chapter 9. Review : Balz Engler, Poetry and community -- Chapter 10. Review : John Stephens and Ruth Waterhouse, Literature, language, and change: From Chaucer to the present -- Chapter 11. Review article : Simulative panhumanism: A challenge to current linguistic and literary thought: Michael Shapiro, The sense of change: Language as history -- Nicole Ward Jouve, White woman speaks with forked tongue: Criticism as autobiography -- -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- Chapter 12. Postdisciplinary philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics -- 1. The inadequacy of synchronic, normative pragmatics -- 2. The politeness of literary writers -- 3. Changes in pragmatic processing -- 4. Postdisciplinarity versus over-specialization -- Chapter 13. Literary gossip, literary theory, literary pragmatics -- Chapter 14. Literary pragmatics and the alternative Great Expectations -- Chapter 15. Listening to literary scholarship: Models and tones of voice -- Chapter 16. Review : Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction: The linguistic representation of speech and consciousness -- Chapter 17. The sociocultural turn in English studies -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- Chapter 18. Why is literature central [to foreign language education]? -- 1. Aims and caveats -- 2. The focus on the learner -- 3. Literacy -- 4. The implications of pragmatics -- 5. Acquisition habits -- 6. Interdisciplinarity -- 7. Motivation -- Chapter 19. Literature in a university language department -- 1. Literature in continued proficiency training and academic study -- 2. The tradition of English at Åbo Akademi University -- 3. The structure of the Åbo bachelor's and master's degrees -- 4. Proficiency -- 5. Synergy and interdisciplinarity -- 6. The content of the 1988 syllabus -- 7. Literature teaching in the Åbo Department: An example.

Chapter 20. Pragmatics humanized, and some general implications for English departments -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- Chapter 21. Modernist readings mediating: Dickens and the new worlds of later generations -- Chapter 22. A historical but non-determinist pragmatics of literary communication -- 1. Literature and communication -- 2. Literature and history -- 3. Fictionality -- 4. The autonomy of authors -- 5. The human parity of authors and readers -- 6. Pragmatics: A theme and variations -- 7. Historical pragmatics: States and process -- 8. The social individual -- 9. Textualization-cum-contextualization -- 10. Rhetoric -- 11. The receiver's hermeneutic effort -- 12. Text typology -- 13. Politeness -- 14. Ethical involvement -- 15. Communicative faith -- 16. Potentialities and limitations of the approach -- Chapter 23. Review : Jacob L. Mey, When Voices Clash: A Study in Literary Pragmatics -- Chapter 24. Communication: A counterbalance to professional specialization -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- Chapter 25. Reader-learners: Children's literature within a participatory pedagogy -- 1. Children's literature and the aims of foreign language education (FLE) -- 2. Language users as social individuals -- 3. Cultures, behaviours, language use -- 4. Language proficiency and cultural proficiency -- 5. Conscious study versus acquisition -- 6. Curiosity and pleasure -- 7. Target culture loyalties -- 8. Participatory excitement -- 9. Children's novels in FLE -- 10. Caveats, retrospect, prospect -- References -- Index.

The papers selected for this volume aimed to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the various literary-theoretical paradigms under review, to offer new critical assessments of some particular literary writers.

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