The Fictions Of Language And The Languages Of Fiction

Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134872879
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction written by Monika Fludernik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction. Building on the insights of Ann Banfield's Unspeakable Sentences, Fludernik radically extends Banfield's model to accommodate evidence from conversational narrative, non-fictional prose and literary works from Chaucer to the present. Fludernik's model subsumes earlier insights into the forms and functions of quotation and aligns them with discourse strategies observable in the oral language. Drawing on a vast range of literature, she provides an invaluable resource for researchers in the field and introduces English readers to extensive work on the subject in German as well as comparing the free indirect discourse features of German, French and English. This study effectively repositions the whole area between literature and linguistics, opening up a new set of questions in narrative theory.

Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction written by Monika Fludernik and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marina Yaguello
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368129
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Languages written by Marina Yaguello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined languages that are autonomous systems, complete unto themselves and meant for communal use; imaginary, and therefore unlike both natural languages and historically attested languages; and products of an individual effort to lay hold of language. Inventors of languages, Yaguello writes, are madly in love: they love an object that belongs to them only to the extent that they also share it with a community. Yaguello investigates the sources of imaginary languages, in myths, dreams, and utopias. She takes readers on a tour of languages invented in literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, including that in More’s Utopia, Leibniz’s “algebra of thought,” and Bulwer-Lytton’s linguistic fiction. She examines the linguistic fantasies (or madness) of Georgian linguist Nikolai Marr and Swiss medium Hélène Smith; and considers the quest for the true philosophical language. Yaguello finds two abiding (and somewhat contradictory) forces: the diversity of linguistic experience, which stands opposed to unifying endeavors, and, on the other hand, features shared by all languages (natural or not) and their users, which justifies the universalist hypothesis. Recent years have seen something of a boom in invented languages, whether artificial languages meant to facilitate international communication or imagined languages constructed as part of science fiction worlds. In Imaginary Languages (an updated and expanded version of the earlier Les Fous du langage, published in English as Lunatic Lovers of Language), Yaguello shows that the invention of language is above all a passionate, dizzying labor of love.

Author : Michael J. Toolan
Publisher : Past and Present
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stylistics of Fiction written by Michael J. Toolan and published by Past and Present. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed analysis of one text, Toolan considers whether style is a linguistic topic or a topic in the literary criticism and appreciation of a text.

Author : Walter Nash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000365522
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in Popular Fiction written by Walter Nash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in thrillers and romantic fiction. The book examines the use of language across three interrelated levels: a level of verbal organisation, a level of narrative structure, and a level at which stylistic options and devices are related to notions of gender. It introduces ‘the protocol of pulchritude’ and makes use of detailed stylistic and linguistic analysis to investigate a wide range of ‘popfiction’ and ‘magfiction’. In doing so, it provokes serious reflection on popular fiction and its claims on the reader.

Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134058764
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Narratology written by Monika Fludernik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the field how students can use narratological theory to work with texts, incorporating detailed practical examples a glossary of useful narrative terms, and suggestions for further reading. This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of narratology by a leading practitioner in the field. It demystifies the subject in a way that is accessible to beginners, but also reflects recent theoretical developments and narratology’s increasing popularity as a critical tool.

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803273495
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Narrative Analysis written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.

Author : Jean Claude Milner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Love of Language written by Jean Claude Milner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willie Van Peer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134834632
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Text written by Willie Van Peer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors of this text, first published in 1988, provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements. They bring together innovative perspectives on literary analysis and theory, on pragmatics and discourse analysis, as well as on text linguistics and reception theory. Various text types are examined, and the editor introduces each chapter in order to draw them all together to make a fascinating and cohesive whole.

Author : Miriam A. Locher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110431092
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics of Fiction written by Miriam A. Locher and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fictional language allows scholars to review key concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance, dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages, the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.