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Intro -- A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Advisory Board -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Tellability and politeness in "The Miller's Tale": First steps in literary pragmatics -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- Chapter 2. Politeness in Chaucer: Suggestions towards a methodology for pragmatic stylistics -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- 8. -- Chapter 3. Review : George L. Dillon, Rhetoric as social imagination: Explorations in the interpersonal function of language. -- Chapter 4. Disciplinary fragmentation and integration: Grammatology and literary pragmatics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The mid-nineteenth century -- 3. Linguistic thought, 1870-1970 -- 4. Anglo-American literary thought, 1870-1970 -- 5. Grammatology -- 6. Literary Pragmatics -- 7. Looking ahead -- Chapter 5. English departments in British higher education: A view from abroad -- Chapter 6. Review article : Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style -- David Birch and Michael O'Toole (eds), Functions of style -- and Alan Swingewood, Sociological poetics and aesthetic theory. Leo Hickey (ed.), The pragmatics of style -- David Birch and -- Chapter 7. How can literary pragmaticists develop empirical methods?: The problem of modal and evaluative expressions in literary texts -- Chapter 8. Literary genre and history: Questions from a literary pragmaticist for socio-semioticians -- 1. The nature of the questions to be posed -- 2. The neoclassical decontextualization of literary genres -- 3. The modern emphasis on individual vision at the expense of genre -- 4. Rehabilitations of genre -- 5. Literary pragmatics -- 6. Four problems for a literary pragmatic account of genre -- 7. The socio-semiotic view of genre -- 8. An example -- 9. Postscript, 1991.

Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Languages -- 1. The "minor language" perspective -- References -- 2. The language milieu of the Old Order Amish -- Introduction -- The state of the world's languages -- Reasons for concern -- The language context of the United States -- Pennsylvania Deitsch -- Old Order Amish language use and language maintenance -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- 3. English - The Last Lingua Franca? -- Reference -- 4. National identities and the Latin language in Hungary and Croatia -- References -- 5. Error and innovation in postcolonial composition -- World Englishes and cultural translation -- Bilingual creativity and composition studies -- Sameness and difference in a postcolonial classroom -- World Englishes: The promise of a term -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Cultivating learners' intellectual growth and conceptual thinking skills -- Introduction -- Rationale and significance of the study -- Objectives of the study -- Methods used in the study -- The population -- The procedures -- Method of data collection -- Data analysis -- Findings -- Part I: Personal information about the participants -- Part II: The participants' writing errors in the pre-test -- Part III: The participants' writing improvements -- Level 4. Types of grammatical and punctuation error -- Level 3. Types of grammatical and punctuation error -- Comparison of participants' writing improvement -- Participants' improvements in using discourse markers -- Participants' writing improvement reflected in their haiku poems -- Conclusions and implications -- Research question 1. How does reading impact the participants' writing development?