Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts
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Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts
Adami, Esterino
Taylor & Francis Ltd
09/2022
140
Dura
Inglês
9781032211152
15 a 20 dias
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1.1 Language, Style, and Variation in Indian English Literary Texts
1.2 Aims of the Book and Case Studies
1.3 For a New Methodological Paradigm: Postcolonial Stylistics
1.4 Overview of the Book
2. Indian English across Texts and Discourses
2.1 English in/and India
2.2 Indian English(es) and Linguistic/Stylistic Variation
2.3 Literary Texts and Contemporary Indian English Authors
3. Otherness, Style and Indian English 'Decadent' Fiction
3.1 The Language of Otherness in the Postcolonial Indian World
3.2 Author, Text, and Context: Jeet Thayil
3.3 Otherness and the Construction of Drug Discourse
3.4 Of Poets, Saints, and Sinners: Indian English and Postcolonial Heteroglossia
4. The Voices of 'Lament' in Indian English Literature
4.1 Language, Lament, and Literature
4.2 Author, Text and Context: Deepa Anappara
4.3 Constructing Empathy, Irony, and Texture
4.4 Author, Text, and Context: Avni Doshi
4.5 Remembering, Forgetting: Loss, Memory, and Identity
5. Languaging the Sense(s) of Indian English Fiction
5.1 Representing the Senses in Language and Fiction
5.2 Author, Text, and Context: Tabish Khair
5.3 The Pragmatics of Senses: Embodiment, Perception, and Suspense
5.4 Author, Text, and Context: Megha Majumdar
5.5 "You smell like smoke": Language, Sense(s), and Identity
6. Conclusions
6.1 More Tools and Theories for Indian English in Fictional Texts
6.2 Further Research: Other Genres and Research Extensions
Index
1. Introduction
1.1 Language, Style, and Variation in Indian English Literary Texts
1.2 Aims of the Book and Case Studies
1.3 For a New Methodological Paradigm: Postcolonial Stylistics
1.4 Overview of the Book
2. Indian English across Texts and Discourses
2.1 English in/and India
2.2 Indian English(es) and Linguistic/Stylistic Variation
2.3 Literary Texts and Contemporary Indian English Authors
3. Otherness, Style and Indian English 'Decadent' Fiction
3.1 The Language of Otherness in the Postcolonial Indian World
3.2 Author, Text, and Context: Jeet Thayil
3.3 Otherness and the Construction of Drug Discourse
3.4 Of Poets, Saints, and Sinners: Indian English and Postcolonial Heteroglossia
4. The Voices of 'Lament' in Indian English Literature
4.1 Language, Lament, and Literature
4.2 Author, Text and Context: Deepa Anappara
4.3 Constructing Empathy, Irony, and Texture
4.4 Author, Text, and Context: Avni Doshi
4.5 Remembering, Forgetting: Loss, Memory, and Identity
5. Languaging the Sense(s) of Indian English Fiction
5.1 Representing the Senses in Language and Fiction
5.2 Author, Text, and Context: Tabish Khair
5.3 The Pragmatics of Senses: Embodiment, Perception, and Suspense
5.4 Author, Text, and Context: Megha Majumdar
5.5 "You smell like smoke": Language, Sense(s), and Identity
6. Conclusions
6.1 More Tools and Theories for Indian English in Fictional Texts
6.2 Further Research: Other Genres and Research Extensions
Index
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Diatopic Variation;India;Indian literature;Postcolonialism;Postcolonial Literature;Indian English;Postcolonial Studies;Indian English Fiction;Jeet Thayil;Dense;Contemporary Indian English;Main Characters;Bombay Poets;Indian English Writing;Drug Discourse;Cognitive Poetics;Aravind Adiga;Cognitive Stylistics Approach;Indian English Novels;Violated;Past Tenses;British National Corpus;Fictional Domain;Exonormative Stabilisation;Endonormative Stabilisation;Vernacular Languages;Free Indirect Discourse;Non-standard Syntax;EAL
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1.1 Language, Style, and Variation in Indian English Literary Texts
1.2 Aims of the Book and Case Studies
1.3 For a New Methodological Paradigm: Postcolonial Stylistics
1.4 Overview of the Book
2. Indian English across Texts and Discourses
2.1 English in/and India
2.2 Indian English(es) and Linguistic/Stylistic Variation
2.3 Literary Texts and Contemporary Indian English Authors
3. Otherness, Style and Indian English 'Decadent' Fiction
3.1 The Language of Otherness in the Postcolonial Indian World
3.2 Author, Text, and Context: Jeet Thayil
3.3 Otherness and the Construction of Drug Discourse
3.4 Of Poets, Saints, and Sinners: Indian English and Postcolonial Heteroglossia
4. The Voices of 'Lament' in Indian English Literature
4.1 Language, Lament, and Literature
4.2 Author, Text and Context: Deepa Anappara
4.3 Constructing Empathy, Irony, and Texture
4.4 Author, Text, and Context: Avni Doshi
4.5 Remembering, Forgetting: Loss, Memory, and Identity
5. Languaging the Sense(s) of Indian English Fiction
5.1 Representing the Senses in Language and Fiction
5.2 Author, Text, and Context: Tabish Khair
5.3 The Pragmatics of Senses: Embodiment, Perception, and Suspense
5.4 Author, Text, and Context: Megha Majumdar
5.5 "You smell like smoke": Language, Sense(s), and Identity
6. Conclusions
6.1 More Tools and Theories for Indian English in Fictional Texts
6.2 Further Research: Other Genres and Research Extensions
Index
1. Introduction
1.1 Language, Style, and Variation in Indian English Literary Texts
1.2 Aims of the Book and Case Studies
1.3 For a New Methodological Paradigm: Postcolonial Stylistics
1.4 Overview of the Book
2. Indian English across Texts and Discourses
2.1 English in/and India
2.2 Indian English(es) and Linguistic/Stylistic Variation
2.3 Literary Texts and Contemporary Indian English Authors
3. Otherness, Style and Indian English 'Decadent' Fiction
3.1 The Language of Otherness in the Postcolonial Indian World
3.2 Author, Text, and Context: Jeet Thayil
3.3 Otherness and the Construction of Drug Discourse
3.4 Of Poets, Saints, and Sinners: Indian English and Postcolonial Heteroglossia
4. The Voices of 'Lament' in Indian English Literature
4.1 Language, Lament, and Literature
4.2 Author, Text and Context: Deepa Anappara
4.3 Constructing Empathy, Irony, and Texture
4.4 Author, Text, and Context: Avni Doshi
4.5 Remembering, Forgetting: Loss, Memory, and Identity
5. Languaging the Sense(s) of Indian English Fiction
5.1 Representing the Senses in Language and Fiction
5.2 Author, Text, and Context: Tabish Khair
5.3 The Pragmatics of Senses: Embodiment, Perception, and Suspense
5.4 Author, Text, and Context: Megha Majumdar
5.5 "You smell like smoke": Language, Sense(s), and Identity
6. Conclusions
6.1 More Tools and Theories for Indian English in Fictional Texts
6.2 Further Research: Other Genres and Research Extensions
Index
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Diatopic Variation;India;Indian literature;Postcolonialism;Postcolonial Literature;Indian English;Postcolonial Studies;Indian English Fiction;Jeet Thayil;Dense;Contemporary Indian English;Main Characters;Bombay Poets;Indian English Writing;Drug Discourse;Cognitive Poetics;Aravind Adiga;Cognitive Stylistics Approach;Indian English Novels;Violated;Past Tenses;British National Corpus;Fictional Domain;Exonormative Stabilisation;Endonormative Stabilisation;Vernacular Languages;Free Indirect Discourse;Non-standard Syntax;EAL
