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Literary pragmatics - an introduction, Roger D. Sell; on theinterpretability of texts in general and of literary texts inparticular, Nils Erik Enkvist; cross-cultural problems in theperception of literature, Richard J. Watts; poetic effects - arelevance perspective, Adrian Pilkington; how indirect discourse means- syntax, semantics, poetics, Meir Sternberg; poems as text anddiscourse - the poetics of Philip Larkin, Peter Verdonk; understandingmetaphor in literature - towards an empirical study, Gerard Steen; butwhat is literature? towards a descriptive definition of literature,Willie van Peer; two-way pragmatics - from world to text and back, ZivaBen-Porat; on free and latent semantic energy, Claes Schaar;textualization, Balz Engler; what difference do the circumstances ofpublication make to the interpretation of a literary text?, Jerome J.McGann; the politeness of literary texts, Roger D. Sell; how does thewriter of a dramati text interact with his audiences? on the pragmaticsof literary communication, Ernest W.B. Hess-Luttich.