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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 radically from this view, and drawing upon the findings of both sociolinguists and speech act theoreticians, Pratt argues against the notion that literature is formally and functionally distinct from our other verbal activities and points the way toward a unified theory of discourse. She shows how the poetic language argument, expounded by the Russian Formalists and developed by structuralists, fails, first on its own grounds, and second in the face of data from non-literary discourse, especially that presented by Labov in his studies of non-literary narrative; and suggests how recent developments in speech act theory and sociolinguistics correct previous theoretical deficiencies. The hypothesis emerges that a descriptive apparatus which can adequately account for non-literary uses of language will give a satisfactory account of literary discourse as well. An immensely important contribution to literary theory and linguistics.

Literary style. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Poetics. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Literature --- Style, Literary --- Language and languages --- Poetry --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Style --- Technique --- Philosophy

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"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--

Cognitive science --- Lexicography --- Fiction companions --- cognition --- theory of mind --- novel --- cognition and literature --- fiction: social aspects --- mindreading and social status --- Bakhtin --- opacity model --- children's literature --- creative writing. --- Literature --- Cognition in literature. --- Psychology and literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- Psychological aspects. --- SCIENCE / Cognitive Science --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature and psychology --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship

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Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for ‘philology’ altogether. Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit purāṇas and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of śāstric scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Śāradātanaya, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava poet-theologian Veṅkaṭanātha, and the maverick Śaiva mystic Maheśvarānanda.

Manuscripts, Sanskrit --- Philology, Modern --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- Language and languages --- Sanskrit language --- Literature and society --- History. --- Research --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sanscrit language --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Literary discourse analysis --- Philology, Medieval --- Sanskrit manuscripts --- Social aspects --- Sociolinguistics --- Indo-Aryan languages --- Manipravalam language (Malayalam) --- Vedic language --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Medieval philology --- Modern philology --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Literature and society. --- Manuscripts, Sanskrit. --- Sanskrit language. --- Study and teaching. --- Research. --- India. --- India, South. --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- India, South --- India --- India, Southern --- Southern India --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indi --- Indien --- Indii͡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Literature: history & criticism