Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories PDF
This e-book takes the following query as its start line: What are some of the essential issues the reader should do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The e-book is a research of the texture of narrative fiction, utilizing stylistics, corpus linguistic rules (particularly Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological concepts, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational concepts about the function of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and additionally engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary studying. The research grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of prolonged fictional texts increase, regarding the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader’s expertise in the course of studying narratives, and significantly regarding the function of language in that comprehension and expertise. The concepts of scenario, repetition and picturing are all central to the e-book’s argument about how readers course of story, and Toolan additionally considers the moral and emotional involvement of the reader, growing hypotheses about the text-linguistic traits of the most ethically and emotionally involving parts of the tales examined. This e-book makes an essential contribution to the research of narrative textual content and is in dialogue with latest work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary textual content and texture.
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Date: 2016
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Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories