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Corpus Stylistics
This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. The book includes detailed discussions of:
The construction of this corpus of late twentieth-century written British narratives taken from fiction, newspaper news reports and (auto)biographies
The development of a manual annotation system for speech, writing and thought presentation and its application to the corpus.
The findings of a quantitive and qualitative analysis of the forms and functions of speech, writing and thought presentation in the three genres represented in the corpus.
The findings of the analysis of a range of specific phenomena, including hypothetical speech, writing and thought presentation, embedded speech, writing and thought presentation and ambiguities in speech, writing and thought presentation.
Two case studies concentrating on specific texts from the corpus.
Corpus Stylistics shows how stylistics, and text/discourse analysis more generally, can benefit from the use of a corpus methodology and the authors' innovative approach results in a more reliable and comprehensive categorisation of the forms of speech, writing and thought presentation than have been suggested so far. This book is essential reading for linguists interested in the areas of stylistics and corpus linguistics.
Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. She is the author of Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (1997), and co-editor (with Jonathan Culpetter) of Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis (2002). Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University. He has written Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (1997) and (with Geoffrey Leech) Style in Fiction (1997). He founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association and was the founding editor of its international journal, Language and Literature.
1. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Discourse Presentation in Written Narratives 2. Methodology: The Construction and Annotation of the Corpus 3. A Revised Model of Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation 4. Speech Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis 5. Writing Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis 6. Thought Presentation in the Corpus: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis 7. Specific Phenomena in Speech, Writing Presentation 8. Case Studies of Specific Texts from the Corpus 9. Conclusion
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Twelver Shiite Scholars’ Position on Adopting Hadiths Transmitted by Sunnis and Non-Twelver Shiites
This article deals with the positions taken by Twelver Shiite hadith scholars on the question of adopting hadiths narrated on the authority of al-ꜥāmma, that is, non-Shiites. The article begins by defining the terms al-ꜥāmma and al-khāșșa as employed by the Twelver Shiites and the evolution of their meanings, noting that the issue of adopting narratives passed down on the authority of al-ꜥāmma had not been resolved among Shiite scholars when the Shiite sect emerged in the first and second centuries AH, during which time numerous hadiths were being passed down by Shiites through al-ꜥāmma. However, once the idea of the minor occultation had crystallized, and following this, the major occultation, Shiite scholars began restricting the use of narratives passed down via al-ꜥāmma. Shiite scholars were divided into two groups over the question of adopting hadiths narrated on the authority of al-ꜥāmma (Sunnis) and non-Twelver Shiites, with the first group approving this practice, and the second group forbidding it on the grounds that Sunnis and non-Twelver Shiites were not believers in the twelve imams. Thus, a doctrinal debate arose over the qualifications of hadith narrators which had nothing to do with the status of the hadith, or whether the person who had transmitted the hadith had sat directly with the imam on whose authority he had narrated it.
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Impossible Puzzle Films
Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Wilemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive and Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film to examine movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our mind's blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke.
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Storyworlds across Media
The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media-everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games-is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society.Storyworlds across Mediaexplores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness?
The first part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and fictionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and differences in the ways media narrate.
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Emerging vectors of narratology
\"Is narratology consolidating or is it diversifying? Under the heading \"Contexts,\" some contributions to this volume seek to reframe and refine such topics as the implied author, narrative causation or transmedial narrative as well as the cultural and historical dimensions of narrative. Others, under \"Openings,\" expand on these and other questions by addressing the narrative turn, cognitive issues, narrative complexity and metatheoretical matters.\"--Publisher's description.
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Deleuzian fabulation and the scars of history
By tracing its connections to other concepts and situating them within Deleuze's general aesthetics, Ronald Bogue develops a theory of fabulation, which he proposes as the guiding principle of a Deleuzian approach to literary narrative. This is an original and exciting project by a highly respected specialist in the field.
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