The Text and Beyond
ISBN: 9780817389352
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of Alabama Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Criticism.; Discourse analysis Literary.;

Demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it--history, culture, or politics--that contribute to our understanding of language

The Text & Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics is a collection of suggestive models for those interested in using the tools of linguistics to meet the aims of literary criticism and theory. Only very recently have linguists and literary scholars come to recognize that their goals are compatible.

Cynthia Goldin Bernstein is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at The University of Memphis. She is coeditor of Language Variety in the South Revisited .

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