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Introduction to contemporary linguistic semantics
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ISBN: 0134794516 0134794699 9780134794518 Year: 1977 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall,


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Language Processing and the Reading of Literature : Toward a Model of Comprehension
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ISBN: 0253050987 Year: 1978 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Dillon draws upon recent studies of language processing to ask how linguistic form shapes readers' (or hearers') responses to literary texts. The resulting model of comprehension gives an explicit account of the strategies readers may use in analyzing and comprehending passages from Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Henry James, Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, and other notoriously "difficult" writers. Dillon's model bears on many of the major issues in current literary theory, such as whether and how "literary" reading differs from other kinds of reading and what the function and importance of ambiguity is within a literary work. The book's overall aim is to supplant William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity as an account of how we do and should read literature.

Rhetoric as social imagination: explorations in the interpersonal function of language
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ISBN: 0253350115 Year: 1986 Publisher: Bloomington

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Logic --- Literary rhetorics

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