By Monika Fludernik
ISBN-10: 0415092264
ISBN-13: 9780415092265
ISBN-10: 0415756227
ISBN-13: 9780415756228
Building at the insights of Ann Banfield's Unspeakable Sentences, Fludernik extensively extends Banfield's version to deal with facts from conversational narrative, non-fictional prose and literary works from Chaucer to the present.
Fludernik's version subsumes past insights into the types and services of citation and aligns them with discourse suggestions observable within the oral language. Drawing on an enormous variety of literature, she offers a useful source for researchers within the box and introduces English readers to huge paintings at the topic in German in addition to evaluating the unfastened oblique discourse gains of German, French and English.
This examine successfully repositions the entire sector among literature and linguistics, beginning up a brand new set of questions in narrative theory.
Read or Download The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction PDF
Best semantics books
James Pustejovsky,Branimir Boguraev's Lexical Semantics: The Problem of Polysemy PDF
Lexical ambiguity offers some of the most intractable difficulties for language processing reports and, no longer strangely, it truly is on the middle of study in lexical semantics. initially released as distinct problems with the magazine of Semantics, this assortment makes a speciality of the matter of polysemy, from the perspective of practitioners of computational linguistics.
Paul Baker,Sibonile Ellece's Key Terms in Discourse Analysis PDF
Professor Maurice Casey offers a worldly and interesting historic reconstruction of Jesus' existence tackling debatable matters comparable to the Virgin beginning and the Resurrection. Casey's masterful remedy of the Aramaic resources and historical past to the Gospels make this quantity specified in that no different lifetime of Jesus has been written by means of a pupil with such services within the language which Jesus spoke, hence Casey is ready to draw us towards the "real Jesus" than ever ahead of.
Get How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and PDF
A brand new and fascinating advent to linguistics, this textbook provides language in all its awesome complexity, whereas guiding scholars lightly during the fundamentals. scholars emerge with an appreciation of the variety of the world's languages, in addition to a deeper realizing of the constitution of human language, the methods it really is used, and its broader social and cultural context.
Read e-book online Adverbial Clauses in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Trends in PDF
This learn investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic standpoint. in keeping with different fresh typological learn within the context of complicated sentences and clause-linkage, it proceeds from an in depth, multivariate research of the morphosyntactic features of the phenomenon lower than scrutiny.
Extra info for The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction
Sample text
The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction by Monika Fludernik
by Brian
4.4