Language and characterisation: people in plays and other texts
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Harlow [u.a.]
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2001
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adam_text | LANGUAGE AND
CHARACTERISATION
PEOPLE IN PLAYS
AND OTHER TEXTS
JONATHAN CULPEPER
An imprint of Pearson Education
Harlow, England - London • New York • Reading, Massachusetts • San Francisco
Toronto - Don Mills, Ontario - Sydney • Tokyo • Singapore • Hong Kong • Seoul
Taipei - Cape Town - Madrid • Mexico City • Amsterdam • Munich • Paris - Milan
CONTENTS
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
CHAPTER 1: MODELLING CHARACTERISATION 1
1 1 Introduction 1
1 2 Raising the issues 3
1 3 Characters: Approaches in literary criticism 5
131 Humanising approaches 6
132 De-humanising approaches 7
133A mixed approach 9
1 4 People: Approaches in linguistics 12
141 Language attitude research 13
142 Identity in sociolinguistics: Insights
from gender studies 15
143 Social constructivist approaches 18
144 Developing a pragmatic view of language
and people 23
1 5 Text comprehension and characterisation 26
151 Information sources and cognitive
processes: Top-down and bottom-up 27
152 Mental representations in text
comprehension 28
153 Mental representations in literary texts
and characterisation 32
16A model for characterisation 34
vi i
1 7 Characterisation in plays: Some preliminaries 38
171 Discourse structure 38
172 Text and performance 39
PART ONE: CHARACTERISATION AND THE MIND
CHAPTER 2: CHARACTER CATEGORIES AND
IMPRESSIONS OF CHARACTER 47
2 1 Introduction 47
2 2 Literary approaches to categorising character 48
221 Traits and semes 48
222 Actant roles 49
223 Dramatic roles 50
224 Character typologies: The vflat7xround
distinction 52
2 3 The organisation and role of prior knowledge 57
231 Memory stores 58
232 Semantic memory and episodic memory 59
233 Knowledge structures 60
2 4 Social cognition 70
241 Perspectives on social cognition 70
242 Cognition, social dimensions and
discourse 72
243 From non-social to social categories 73
244 Social categories: Three main groups 75
245 Social schemata 76
246 Social categories and social schemata
in two advertisements 80
247 Impression formation 83
2 5 Social cognition and fictional characterisation 86
251 Categories in characterisation 86
252 Prototypicality distortions in fictional
contexts 88
253 Possibility distortions in fictional contexts 92
viii
254 The flat/round distinction revisited 93
255 Category shifts in characterisation 96
2 6 Investigating readers descriptions of character 99
261 Aims and methodology 99
262 Discussion 103
2 7 Conclusion 110
CHAPTER 3: INFERRING CHARACTER FROM TEXTS 113
3 1 Introduction 113
3 2 Approaching character inferencing from within
literary studies 114
3 3 Attribution theories 115
331 Correspondent inference theory 116
332 Critique of correspondent inference theory 119
333 Correspondent inference theory, speech
act theory and play texts 122
334 Covariation theory 126
335 Integrating two attribution theories 128
3 4 Foregrounding theory 129
3 5 Foregrounding theory and attribution theory:
Are they analogous? 133
3 6 Attribution theory in practice 135
361 When and how does attribution occur? 135
362 Attribution and perceiver biases 136
3 7 Attribution theory and language 139
371 Conversational action 139
372 Inferencing in a communicative context 141
373 Language attitude research 143
3 8 Inferring characteristics in plays 144
381 The inferential context 145
382 Reader manipulations 146
383 Investigating readers inferences 149
3 9 Conclusion 153
ix
Further directions and exercises 156
1 Jokes 156
2 Adverts 157
3 Personal adverts 158
4 Newspapers 159
PART TWO: CHARACTERISATION AND THE TEXT
CHAPTER 4: TEXTUAL CUES IN CHARACTERISATION 163
4 1 Introduction 163
4 2 Preliminaries 164
421 Form, function and context 164
422 Idiolect, dialect and different media 166
4 3 Explicit cues: Self-presentation and
other-presentation 167
431 Self-presentation in the presence of other
characters 168
432 Self-presentation in the absence of other
characters 169
433 Other-presentation 171
4 4 Implicit cues 172
441 Conversational structure 172
442 Conversational implicature 180
443 Lexis 182
444 Syntactic features 202
445 Accent and dialect 206
446 Verse and prose 213
447 Paralinguistic features 215
448 Visual features 221
449 Context: A character s company and setting 225
4 5 Authorial cues 229
451 Proper names 229
452 Stage directions 231
4 6 Conclusion 232
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CHAPTER 5: (IM)POLITENESS AND CHARACTERISATION 235
5 1 Introduction 235
5 2 Speech acts, politeness and characterisation:
Opening examples 235
5 3 Linguistic politeness 237
531 Face, face-threatening acts, and degree
of face threat 238
532 Superstrategies 243
54A note on impoliteness 245
5 5 The case for the importance of (im)politeness in
characterisation 247
551 (Im)politeness, power and person perception 247
552 (Im)politeness and characterisation:
The study of The Entertainer revisited 251
5 6 Characterisation in the film Scent of a Woman 255
5 7 Conclusion 261
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION: THE CHARACTERISATION OF
KATHERI-NA IN SHAKESPEARE S
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW 263
6 1 Introduction 263
6 2 Literary criticism and Katherina 263
6 3 Analysis of Katherina in The Taming
of the Shrew 265
631 The SHREW schema 265
632 First impressions: Instantiating the SHREW
schema 268
633 Character context: The role of Bianca 270
634 Inferring shrewish characteristics 271
635 Characterisation through other-presentation 273
636A close-up on Katherina 275
637 Character context: Petruchio replaces
Bianca 276
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638 Characterisation through
other-presentation: A reversal 278
639 Katherina s behaviour 279
6 3 10 Katherina and the run-up to the
obedience speech (V ii 137-180) 280
6 4 Conclusion 283
Further directions and exercises 287
1 Narrative 287
2 Verse 289
References 291
Index 311
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