Understanding a reader's attraction to a literary short text
The aim of this article is to understand why a reader may feel attracted to a short stretch of fictional discourse. I analyse a short extract taken from Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns through the integration of different perspectives in discourse analysis. First, I analyse the text...
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Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
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| description | The aim of this article is to understand why a reader may feel attracted to a short stretch of fictional discourse. I analyse a short extract taken from Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns through the integration of different perspectives in discourse analysis. First, I analyse the text in terms of contexts of culture and situation including field, tenor, mode, participants’ social world, setting, channel, and key. In the second section I attempt to examine the text line by line following my interdisciplinary framework of reference. Secondly, I offer a line-by-line analysis through Grice’s maxims, topicality, deixis, coding time, types of utterances and verbal processes, and metaphors. Through my analysis I discovered that my reader’s attraction was based on the combination and integration of different textual devices and my personal interpretation of the pragmatics behind the text. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d43a3bc5fb24be4995ecac5b8e5e0cb2022-12-21T17:22:25ZengUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasColombian Applied Linguistics Journal0123-46412248-70852014-09-0116110511310.14483/udistrital.jour.calj.2014.1.a096438Understanding a reader's attraction to a literary short textDarío Luis Banegas0University of Warwick (UK) and Ministerio de Educación del Chubut (AR)The aim of this article is to understand why a reader may feel attracted to a short stretch of fictional discourse. I analyse a short extract taken from Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns through the integration of different perspectives in discourse analysis. First, I analyse the text in terms of contexts of culture and situation including field, tenor, mode, participants’ social world, setting, channel, and key. In the second section I attempt to examine the text line by line following my interdisciplinary framework of reference. Secondly, I offer a line-by-line analysis through Grice’s maxims, topicality, deixis, coding time, types of utterances and verbal processes, and metaphors. Through my analysis I discovered that my reader’s attraction was based on the combination and integration of different textual devices and my personal interpretation of the pragmatics behind the text.http://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/calj/article/view/5378context, discourse analysis, fiction, Hosseini, pragmaticstext analysis |
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| topic | context, discourse analysis, fiction, Hosseini, pragmatics text analysis |
| url | http://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/calj/article/view/5378 |
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