6 Collocation as the determinant of verbal art

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Private pleasure, public discourse: refl ections on engaging with literature 13
7. 2 Construing the ‘primitive’ primitively: grammatical parallelism as patterning and positioning strategy in D. H. Lawrence 41
8. 3 Thought experiments in verbal art: examples from Modernism 68
9. 4 The meaning of ‘dark*’ in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 97
10. 5 Projection in literary and in non-literary texts 115
11. 6 Collocation as the determinant of verbal art 149
12. 7 Text linguistics and comparative literature: towards an interdisciplinary approach to written tales. Angela Carter’s translations of Perrault 181
13. 8 Translation teaching and methodology: a linguistic analysis of a literary text 197
14. 9 Deconstructing standard syntax: tendencies in Modern German prose writing 212
15. 10 Kanak sprak: the linguistic features of Turkish migrants’ communicative style in Feridun Zaimoğlu’s works 234
16. 11 Debating the function of language in poetry: meta-textual musings in the Spanish 50s generation 253
17. Author index 271
18. Subject index 276