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Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It
contributes to the pragmatics ...
Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It
contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by
proposing a new theoretical account of literariness in terms of mental representations and mental processes.
The book attempts to define literariness in terms of text-internal linguistic properties, cultural codes or special purpose reading strategies, as well as
suggestions that the notion of literariness should be dissolved or rejected. It challenges the accounts of language and verbal communication that underpin
such positions and outlines the theory of verbal communication developed within relevance theory that supports an explanatory account of poetic effects and
a new account of literariness. This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what
is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication. The discussion of emotion, qualitative experience and, more specifically, aesthetic experience
provides a fuller characterisation of poetic effects and 'poetic thought'.
