Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activi

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activi

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary

The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the pe

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.