基本説明
This book presents the application of current linguistic theory to the verbal arts of the world. The book begins with four chapters which explore in detail the exploitation of phonological structure in metrical verse and song.
Full Description
Linguistics and Literature is the first book to offer an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world
Contents
Acknowledgements. A Note on Texts.
1. Literary Linguistics and Verbal Art.
2. Meter and Linguistic Theory.
3. Kinds of Meter.
4. Issues in Metrical Theory: Metrical Constituents, and Music and Meter.
5. Para-metrical Rules: Word-boundary Rules and Sound-patterning Rules.
6. Parallelism.
7. Narrative: The Storyline.
8. Narrative Episodes.
9. Performance.
10. Communication.
11. Literary Linguistics: Summary and Prospects.
References.
Index of Languages.
General Index.
