Designs for Reader Manipulation in Detective Fictions

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  • 情報操作のデザイン : 推理小説の場合
  • ジョウホウ　ソウサ　ノ　デザイン　スイリ　ショウセツ　ノ　バアイ

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In recent decades, the primary concern in narrative stylistics has entered a new phase; from“linguistic features in the text” into “cognitive and pragmatic features around the text.” The extension from text to context develops a further inquiry into the interaction between text and reader. This paper aims to explore how the author of narrative fi ctions rhetorically designs the text and, on the other hand, how readers interpret it by inference, cognitively and pragmatically. More specifi cally taking the case of detective fi ctions by Agatha Christie, designs for reader manipulation, paying particular attention to fairness, will be detected, through unnarration, disnarration, misdirection, distraction and also attraction, to be provoked within readers’ cognitive process and interpretation.

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  • 言語文化研究

    言語文化研究 39 31-51, 2013-03-31

    Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University

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