- Title
- Marked Forms and Indeterminate Implicatures in Ernest Hemingway s Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
- Author/Creator
- Siobhan Chapman
- Publication Details
- Pragmatics and Literature, pp.21-43
- Annotation
- Examines a short extract from The Sun Also Rises to illustrate how linguistic micro-analysis underpins broader textual and contextual meanings in the novel as a whole. Discusses critical reception of the novel in relation to the possible meanings or lack thereof within its pages. Other critical points include Hemingway s spare, compressed language and the importance of the prostitute Georgette, whose cameo appearance in Chapter 3 of The Sun Also Rises is the source of the brief section of dialogue under analysis here. Explains the variability and often surprising intentional effect of linguistic foregrounding and markedness, which signifies to a reader the possibility of an implicit meaning. Shifting use of languages in dialogue throughout the novel (e.g. French, Spanish) present further examples of linguistic indeterminacy and instability. Concluding sections put the author s analysis in the context of linguistic theories, thus of interest mainly to specialists.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131468003691
Book chapter
Marked Forms and Indeterminate Implicatures in Ernest Hemingway s Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Pragmatics and Literature, pp.21-43
2019
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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