Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and acce

This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of th

Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse. These differences derive mainly from the creation

This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered co

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