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犯罪小说中的悬疑语言

——语言学文体学范式

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请试想，用语言学研究悬案小说中的悬念，会是怎样一种体验？⬇⬇⬇

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non-linear, causative presentation of the narrative. The author investigates how plot sequence is manipulated to ensure the reader cannot resolve the order of events until the end of the tale. From two-dimensional circumstantial detection in mystery stories to three-dimensional re-evaluation of offender orientation, she uses a linguistic-based stylistic framework to analyse offender motive. She also employs a 'discourse-based' frame analysis to examine the plot structure of crime stories for micro context and set-up scenarios, demonstrating that it is the unravelling of these devices that creates the suspense in murder mysteries and thrillers alike. Finally, she shows how grammaticization of the offending-self reveals an embedded diegetic space in the offender engagement discourse, provoking an intellectual and affective response and reshaping our overall outlook of the crime in the story. This book will appeal to researchers and students from literary and non-literary backgrounds looking for theoretical and practical advice on the linguistic stylistic approach to reading texts.

作者简介

Reshmi Dutta-Flanders

Dr Reshmi Dutta-Flanders has been teaching at the University of Kent since 2003. After receiving her PhD degree in Applied Linguistics, she has contributed to the educational programmes in the Unit of Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (UELT) and at the Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL). Reshmi joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics (ELL) as an Assistant Lecturer in 2010 where she taught Stylistics, World Englishes, Language in the Media and Language and Genderat the Department of English Language Studies (ELS) at Canterbury Christ Church University. 

Reshmi’s research interests are in criminal narratives, and in the varieties of English Language.  She has published on ‘functional nativeness’ in English news discourse, and on ‘suspense in crime fiction’ based on a linguistics and stylistics approach.  Reshmi is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at ELL, and working on her first monograph forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan: The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach.

目录 

Chapter 1: Manipulated Context.- 

Chapter 2: Double function.

Chapter 3: Disposition

Chapter 4: Orientation

Chapter 5: Contrasting mind styles

Chapter 6: Conclusion

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