簡介
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
目錄
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.
