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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828389103321

Autore

Kuroda S.-Y

Titolo

Toward a poetic theory of narration / / essays of S.-Y. Kuroda ; edited by Sylvie Patron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-11-037782-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-430 ; ; volume 269

Classificazione

EC 1820

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Narration (Rhetoric)

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface / Fischer, Susan -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Where epistemology, style, and grammar meet: A case study from Japanese -- Chapter 2. On grammar and narration -- Chapter 3. Reflections on the foundations of narrative theory, from a linguistic point of view -- Chapter 4. Some thoughts on the foundations of the theory of language use -- Chapter 5. The reformulated theory of speech acts: Toward a theory of language use -- Chapter 6. A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi , Lawrence , and Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume consists of six essays by S.-Y. Kuroda on narrative theory, with a substantial introduction, notes, a bibliography and an index of proper names.This is the English version of a French critical edition published by Editions Armand Colin in their ""Recherches"" series in October 2012, translated from English by Cassian Braconnier, Tiên Fauconnier and Sylvie Patron, edition with an introduction and notes by Sylvie Patron.