I am co-organising a panel at the International Pragmatics Association conference in Manchester in July (along with Billy Clark from Middlesex University). Our panel is concerned with the interface between pragmatics and literary stylistics, and we’re looking forward to some really interesting contributions.
My own paper for this panel is a first attempt at using Neo-Gricean pragmatics, particularly the two-principled pragmatic theory developed by Laurence Horn, as an approach to the analysis of literary texts. My test case is Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night (1935).
