Format:
1 online resource (xi, 228 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-0-511-79441-4
Content:
How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, describing the processes which drive the emergence of literary meaning. If a text means something to someone, she argues, there have to be linguistic phenomena that make it possible. Drawing on blending theory and construction grammar, the book focuses its linguistic lens on the concepts of the narrator and the story, and defines narrative viewpoint in a new way. The examples come from a wide spectrum of texts, primarily novels and drama, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Jan Potocki and Mikhail Bulgakov
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
,
Language and literary narratives -- Blending, narrative spaces, and the emergent story -- Stories and their tellers -- Viewpoint: representation and compression -- Referential expressions and narrative spaces -- Fictional minds and embodiment in drama and fiction -- Speech and thought in the narrative -- Stories in the mind
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-107-55861-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-107-00582-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Epik
;
Bedeutung
;
Erzählperspektive
;
Sprache
;
Kognition
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511794414
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794414
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Dancygier, Barbara 1952-
