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Authors: Paul Simpson
ISBN-13: 9780415071079, ISBN-10: 0415071070
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Paul Simpson

Book Synopsis

This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view is shaped by ideology. It focusses on the way in which people encode their beliefs and biases in a wide variety of media.

	Series editor's introduction to the Interface series
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: analysing point of view in language	1
1.2	Stylistics and critical linguistics	2
2	Point of view in narrative fiction: preliminaries	11
2.2	Spatial and temporal point of view	12
2.3	Speech and thought presentation	21
2.4	Approaches to point of view on the psychological plane	30
3	Point of view in narrative fiction: a modal grammar	46
3.2	Modality in language	47
3.3	A modal grammar of point of view in narrative fiction	55
3.4	Transpositions and transitions	76
4	Encoding experience in language: the system of transitivity	86
4.2	The transitivity model	88
4.3	Stylistics and transitivity	95
4.4	Transitivity and critical linguistics	104
4.5	Problems of analysis and interpretation	109
5	Pragmatics and point of view	119
5.2	A pragmatic model of meaning	122
5.3	Implications and consequences	133
5.4	Analysing texts from a pragmatic perspective	140
6	Gender, ideology and point of view	159
6.2	Sexism in language or sexism through language?	161
6.3	Analysing gender bias in language	167
7	Afterword	179
	References	183
	Index	189

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