Adrian Pilkington

List of John Benjamins publications in which Adrian Pilkington is involved.

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Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective

Adrian Pilkington

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… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 75] 2000. xiv, 209 pp.

Article

Pilkington, Adrian 2001 Non-lexicalised concepts and degrees of effability: Poetic thoughts and the attraction of what is not in the dictionary Linguistic Approaches to Poetry, Michaux, Christine and Marc Dominicy (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Some concepts — and hence the thoughts that contain them — are relatively ineffable. Some literary communication nevertheless attempts to eff these concepts. This article is interested in the nature of such concepts and the extent to which pragmatics can deal with them. I discuss the idea,… read more