Idioms in Salman Rushdie's Novels : A Phraseo-stylistic Approach.
Title:
Idioms in Salman Rushdie's Novels : A Phraseo-stylistic Approach.
Author:
Szpila, Grzegorz.
ISBN:
9783653021691
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Series:
Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture ; v.14
Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Phraseology: a study of word combinations -- 1.0 Phraseology and phraseological units -- 1.1 Phraseology and lexicology -- 1.2 Idioms -- 1.2.3.1 Idiomaticity -- 1.2.3.2 Meaning of idioms -- 1.2.3.3 Idiomateme -- Chapter 2 Salman Rushdie - scriptor idiomaticus -- 2.0 Rushdie's idiomatic principle -- 2.1 Figurative and idiomatic saturation -- 2.2 Figurative and idiomatic use -- 2.3 Categorial diversity -- Chapter 3 Phraseo-stylistics: analysis of idioms in a literary text -- 3.1 Idioms and style -- 3.2 Phraseology and stylistics -- 3.3 Idiomatic choice -- Chapter 4 Idioms and text: formal aspects of idiomatic actualizations -- 4.0 Idiomatic physicality -- 4.1 Phraseological and idiomatic reading -- 4.2 Phraseological and idiomatic identification -- 4.3 Phraseological derivation -- 4.4 Phraseological variation and phraseological synonymy/antonymy -- 4.5 Idiomatic modification -- 4.5.1.1 Deletion -- 4.5.1.2 Addition -- 4.5.1.3 Substitution -- 4.5.1.4 Phraseological palimpsest -- 4.5.1.5 Contamination -- 4.5.1.6 Morpho-syntactic modification -- 4.5.1.7 Extending modification -- 4.5.1.8 Mixed modifications -- 4.5.1.9 Idiomatic disintegration -- 4.5.1.10 Idiomatic paraphrase -- 4.5.1.11 Idiomatic allusion -- 4.5.1.12 Individualization of idiomatic constituents -- Chapter 5 Idioms and text. Contextualization of form, meaning, and function -- 5.0 Functionalized idiomaticity -- 5.1 Idiomatic loci -- 5.2 Idiomatic frames -- 5.3 Micro- and macroidioms -- 5.4 Textual positioning of idioms -- 5.5 Idioms in context -- 5.6 Marked idiomatic meaning -- 5.7 Idioms and textual relations: patterns and functions -- 5.8 Structural links -- 5.9 Humour -- 5.10 Textual functions of canonical idioms -- 5.11 Textual functions of idiomatic modifications -- 5.11.2.1 Meaning change.
5.11.2.2 Meaning intensification -- 5.11.2.3 Meaning contextualization -- 5.11.2.4 Meaning extension and foregrounding -- 5.11.2.5 Specialized description -- 5.11.2.6 Component focalization -- 5.11.2.7 Cultural adaptation -- Conclusion -- References.
Abstract:
This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie's eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdie's idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main tenets of phraseo-stylistics are addressed. Then the physical presence of idiomatic expressions in Salman Rushdie's novels is examined and, finally, through close readings and textual analyses of Salman Rushdie's works, the functionality of idioms employed by the author in his prosaic works is determined. This study establishes Salman Rushdie's prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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