The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse: How Texts Allow Us to Mind-Read and Eavesdrop - Couverture rigide

Eckardt, Regine

 
9789004266728: The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse: How Texts Allow Us to Mind-Read and Eavesdrop
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004266720 ISBN 13 : 9789004266728
Editeur : Brill, 2014

Synopsis

Free indirect discourse presents us with the inner world of protagonists of a story. We seem to see the world through their eyes, and listen to their inner thoughts. The present study analyses the logic of free indirect discourse and offers a framework to represent multiple ways in which words betray the speaker's feelings and attitude. The theory covers tense, aspect, temporal indexicals, modal particles, exclamatives and other expressive elements and their dependence on shifting utterance contexts. It traces the subtle ways in which story texts can offer information about protagonists.

The study of free indirect discourse has been a topic of great interest in recent years in semantics and pragmatics. In this book, Regine Eckardt proposes a new theory of this domain and applies it to a wide variety of phenomena -- discourse particles, exclamatives, and mood -- in addition to the traditional indexical pronouns and tenses. She situates this project within a larger attempt to extend the tools of semantic analysis to fiction. Most formally oriented semanticists have not paid serious attention to this domain, which has resulted in a major gap in semantic theory; this book is thus a pioneering effort and raises many intriguing points. The total result is an empirically rich and exciting work which will be a profitable read for researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, and formal approaches to literature. Eric McCready, Aoyama Gakuin University

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À propos de l?auteur

Regine Eckardt Ph.D. (1996) University of Stuttgart, is Professor of semantics/pragmatics at the English department of Göttingen University. She has worked and published on the meaning of focus and information structure, discourse particles, as well as semantic change and grammaticalization.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004266720
ISBN 13 
9789004266728
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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