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1. Introduction; Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark2. The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark's Telling; Andrew Caink3. 'Oh, do let's talk about something else -': What is Not Said and What is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September; Siobhan Chapman4. Before and After Chekhov: Inferring Literary Interpretations and Literary Value; Billy Clark 5. Outsourcing: A Relevance-theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts; Anne Furlong6. Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative; Barbara MacMahon7. Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989); Lisa Nahajec8. Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading; Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou9. 'I've never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life'. The Co-construction of Reader Identity in the Reading Group ; David Peplow10. The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature, and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley's Secret; Ruth Schuldiner11. Literary Style as Facework: Dialogue and Deference in Turkish-German Literature; Chantelle Warner.