This article is a review of Elizabeth Black’s Pragmatic Stylistics. It discusses the author’s stylistic standpoint on fiction. From the pragmatic perspective, the book introduces new stylistic angles to approach the language of fiction, including signposts, narrative voices, direct and indirect discourse shift, discourse politeness, echoic relevance, rhetorical discourse and psychonarration. Carrying out research from these new angles can enrich the investigation of pragmatic stylistics.
LI Chang-Biao.
A New Stylistic Approach to the Language of Fiction: Review of Pragmatic Stylistics[J]. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice. 2011, 1(2): 92