The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction : A Linguistic Stylistic Approach

• Main Author: Dutta-Flanders, Reshmi. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: román; lingvistika; diskurzivní analýza > czenas; sémantika; stylistika; fiction; linguistics; discourse analysis; semantics; stylistics; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9781137470287
• Physical Description: XVII, 500 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non...