Frontmatter -- 1 Literary pragmatics: Why and what? -- Part One: The sentence -- 2 The state of the question -- 3 The language question -- Part Two: Voice -- 4 Speakability and voice -- 5 Voice and voice management -- 6 Voice in focus -- 7 Voice in transition -- Part Three: Perspectives -- 8 The dialogic perspective -- 9 The reader perspective -- 10 The pragmatic perspective -- Part Four: The text -- 11 The voice of the text -- 12 The speakable text -- Notes -- Primary literature -- References -- Name index -- Subject index