Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

• Váldodahkki: Pratt, Mary Louise (auth)
• Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
• Giella: eaŋgalasgiella
• Almmustuhtton: Indiana University Press 1977
• Fáttát: linguistics; Linguistics
• Liŋkkat: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Most twentieth-century attempts to develop a linguistic approach to literature rest on the assumption that litera-ture exists by opposition to all other uses of language-an assumption traditionally expressed as an opposition between "poetic" and "ordinary" language. Departing rad...