Literature as Social Discourse: The Practice of Linguistic Criticism

activity alliteration analysis anti-language aspects Barthes called Chapter claim cohesion communication competence concepts concerned consistent constructions context conventional criticism cultural dialect discourse discussion distinct effect English example experience expression fact fiction formal function grammar Halliday historical ideas ideology implied important individual instance interest interpersonal interpretation Jakobson kind knowledge language linguistic literary texts literature London meaning modality narrative narrator natural novel object offers particular patterns phrases poem poetics position possible practical present Press principle progress question reader reading reference referential relation relationship relevant response rhetorical seems semantic sense sentence significant situation social society sociolinguistic speaker specific speech act structure style stylistics suggest surface syntactic syntax textual theoretical theory traditional transformations types University values varieties whole writing