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Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of 'We Shall Overcome', this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the performative elements that create and shape characters for an audience. By exploring fictional language, the book investigates different forms of interpersonal communication, such as politeness and impoliteness, as well as the nature of poetic language and the language of emotion. With exercises, discussion topics, suggestions for small-scale research projects and further reading, it shows just how fascinating a challenge fictional language can pose to pragmatics, and illustrates the richness of fictional language as a source of data for pragmatic research.

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"Few books pull off the feat of being easy to read yet profound, but this does. Wide-ranging in scope, it shows the pragmatic complexities of fictional data, and the rewards for both pragmatic theorising and literary endeavours. This book is a landmark on the map of scholarship.--Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University Overall, this book is well structured, convincingly argued and comprehensibly written. As Locher and Jucker state, The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse has successfully concepturalised itself such that ""any student interested in fiction and pragmatics in general can benefit from it"".--Huihui Jiang, Shanghai International Studies University & Yunhan Hao and Huadong Li, Shanghai Maritime University ""Journal of Pragmatics"""

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Miriam A. Locher is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Andreas H. Jucker is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland

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