Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (240 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1283342030
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9781107005822
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9781139123365
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9780511794414
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 publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Feb 2013)
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Language and literary narratives; 2. Blending, narrative spaces, and the emergent story; 3. Stories and their tellers; 4. Viewpoint: representation and compression; 5. Referential expressions and narrative spaces; 6. Fictional minds and embodiment in drama and fiction; 7. Spoken discourse and thought in literary discourse; 8. Stories in the mind.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107005822
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dancygier, Barbara, 1952 - The language of stories Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 ISBN 9781107005822
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107005825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107558618
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Sprache
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Kognitive Grammatik
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Diskursanalyse
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Psychologie
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Sprache
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Kognitive Grammatik
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Psychologie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511794414
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Dancygier, Barbara 1952-
