How to show things with words: a study on logic, language and literature
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Main Author: Linhares-Dias, Rui 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin M. de Gruyter ©2006
Series:Trends in linguistics 155
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-518) and indexes
Prolegomena -- The linguistic structure of narrative transmission -- Linguistics in narratology : a critical historical survey -- The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse -- Tense -- Aspect -- Aktionsart -- The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission
This book straddles the border between linguistics and philosophy to address, on a sound interdisciplinary basis, the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption. In languages with no grammaticalized evidential systems, the epistemological structure of discourse underlying perspectival oppositions is heavily dependent on the self-expression of language-using personae and must thereby be inferred from a well-defined set of surface markers. For that matter, the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, supported by the cognitive pro
Physical Description:xxii, 544 pages
ISBN:9783110899627
3110899620
3110179954
9783110179958