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In:Pragmatics and Literature
Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 35] 2019
► pp. 21–43

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Chapter 2
Marked forms and indeterminate implicatures in Ernest Hemingway’s Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Published online: 5 December 2019
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Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2The extract
  • 2.3The novel and its critics
  • 2.4Markedness and speech presentation
    • 2.4.1Marked forms
    • 2.4.2Speech presentation in Fiesta
      • 2.4.2.1Syntax/idiom
      • 2.4.2.2“Colouring”
      • 2.4.2.3Explicit statement
  • 2.5Markedness and indeterminacy in pragmatics
  • 2.6Summary
  • Notes
  • References
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