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The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction. A Linguistic Stylistic Approach.
Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
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Description for The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction. A Linguistic Stylistic Approach.
Hardback. Num Pages: 482 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 12 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non-linear, causative presentation of the narrative. The author investigates how plot sequence is manipulated to ensure the reader cannot resolve the order of events until the end of the tale. From two-dimensional circumstantial detection in mystery stories to three-dimensional re-evaluation of offender orientation, she uses a linguistic-based stylistic framework to analyse offender motive. She also employs a 'discourse-based' frame analysis to ... Read more
This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non-linear, causative presentation of the narrative. The author investigates how plot sequence is manipulated to ensure the reader cannot resolve the order of events until the end of the tale. From two-dimensional circumstantial detection in mystery stories to three-dimensional re-evaluation of offender orientation, she uses a linguistic-based stylistic framework to analyse offender motive. She also employs a 'discourse-based' frame analysis to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
482
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137470270
SKU
V9781137470270
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Ref
99-15
About Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
Reshmi Dutta-Flanders is Honorary Research Fellow at the English Language and Linguistics Department of the University of Kent, UK, where she teaches on a range of topics, including World Englishes, Language in the Media, Semiotics and Stylistics. Her research interests lie in functional nativeness in English language, signs in crime, and in the structure and grammar of crime discourse in ... Read more
Reviews for The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction. A Linguistic Stylistic Approach.
“The Language of Suspense is certainly characterised by vastness and richness in terms of analytical tools, bibliographical references and primary texts. … the theories and considerations systematically presented, employed and proposed by Dutta-Flanders constitute a valuable aid to tackle crime discourse, and gain insights into the effects generated by specific rhetorical devices and textual patterns.” (Esterino Adami, Altre Modernità, Issue ... Read more