Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction (Language In Social Life) - Hardcover

Talbot, Mary M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138439851 ISBN 13: 9781138439856

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She discusses both `high' and `low' fiction, combining discussion of social context with language analysis. Examples are taken from children's tales, romance, horror and science in her language analysis.

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From the Back Cover

In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She does not reduce fiction to a functional support for ideology, however, but considers that the greatest interest in fiction is as a source of pleasure. She discusses both 'high' and 'low' fiction, combining discussion of social context with language analysis. Taking a view of fiction as a product of social practices, the book examines not only the texts themselves but also what people do with them and how they are valued. Fictions at work will be of interest to students on a variety of courses including linguistics, English, women's studies, cultural studies, and media and communication studies.

About the Author

Mary Talbot is now a freelance writer. Her first graphic novel Dotter of Her Father's Eyes won the 2012 Costa biography prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138439851
• ISBN 13: 9781138439856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224