The language of suspense in crime fiction : a linguistic stylistic approach /: a linguistic stylistic approach. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Reshmi Dutta-Flanders.
• Authors: Dutta-Flanders, Reshmi
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; 1: Introduction; Bibliography; Sources cited: Chapter 1; 2: Manipulated Context; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Context Function; 2.3 Frame Analysis (FA); 2.4 Distortion in Plot Sequence; 2.4.1 Manipulated Context: The Classification; 2.4.2 Discourse Referent: The Classification; 2.5 The Processing of Manipulated Context (MC); 2.5.1 Manipulated Context: Case Study-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; 2.5.2 The Principle of Relevance: Case Study-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 2.5.3 Manipulated Context: Case Study-Cover Her Face2.5.4 Manipulated Context: Case Study-The Good Soldier; 2.5.5 The Principle of Relevance: Case Study-The Good Soldier; 2.6 Microcontexts: Scenarios (Case Study: The Good Soldier); 2.7 Conclusion; Appendix 2a; Frame Analysis: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Ackroyd), 1993; Frame analysis (FA); The first story of crime (Chapters 1-5); The second story of investigation (Chapter 6 onwards); Background on RP by the Inspector:; The facts that reveal the murderer (p. 224); The dominant episode in first story; Appendix 2b The first story of crime Appendix 2c; Frame Analysis (FA): Cover Her Face (CHF), 1974; Frame analysis (FA); The first story of crime (Chapters 1-3); The second story of investigation; The dominant episode in first story; Appendix 2d; Frame Analysis (FA): Moser (2008); Frame Analysis (FA); Part 1/I; Part 1/II; Part 1/III; Part 1/IV; Part 1/V; Part 1/VI; Maisie Maidan's death scenario (pp. 85-88); Part 2/I; Part 2/II; Part 3/I; Part 3/II; Part 3/III; Part 3/IV; Part 3/V; Part 4/I; Part 4/II; Part 4/III; Part 4/IV; Part 4/V; Part 4/VI; Appendix 2e Manipulated Contexts (murder mystery)Bibliography; Texts; Sources cited: Chapter 2; 3: Double Function; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Double Function (DF) Principle; 3.3 Storyworlds: Inter diegesis Space in the Narrated World; 3.4 Narrative Act: Narrating Discourse and Narrated Discourse; 3.5 Storyworld Analysis; 3.5.1 Case Study: Storyworld for Offender Dr. Sheppard; 3.5.2 Case Study: Storyworld for Offender Mrs. Maxie; 3.5.3 Case Study: Storyworld for Abettor Dowell; 3.6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Sources cited: Chapter 3; 4: Disposition; 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Story Resolved, a Criminal Revealed4.3 Villains: Their Contextual Background; 4.4 Framework: The Grammar of Experience; 4.4.1 Experiential Function: Transformational Outcome; 4.4.1.1 Semantic Change: Causation; 4.4.1.2 Semantic Change: Deed-and-extension Relation; 4.4.1.3 Logical Relationship: Reverse Circumstantiation; 4.4.2 Interpersonal Function: Passivity and Modality; 4.4.2.1 Narratorial Modes in Story Telling; 4.4.2.2 Stance in Transition; 4.4.3 Referential and Evaluative Function: Truth-Value; 4.5 Findings: Linguistic Dysfunctions; 4.5.1 Perpetrator: Bud Corliss
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.37209; Linguistics; Suspense in literature; Detective and mystery stories -- Technique; Detective and mystery stories -- Authorship; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Detective and mystery stories -- Authorship; Detective and mystery stories -- Technique; Suspense in literature; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Pragmatics; Fiction & related items; Literature & literary studies; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Discourse analysis; Fiction; Literature; Semantics; Discourse analysis; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137470287; 1137470283
• Related ISBNs: 9781137470270; 1137470275
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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