Linguistic foundations of narration in spoken and sign languages / / edited by Annika Hübl, Markus Steinbach

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827291003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Collana: Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistic today ; ; Volume 247
• Classificazione: 801
• Disciplina: 808.036
• Soggetti: Narration (Rhetoric); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for instance, (S)DRT, Centering Theory, Accessibility Theory, QUD, Generalized Conversational Implicatures, Super Monsters and Gesture Semantics and new empirical approaches in the framework of experimental semantics and pragmatics or corpus linguistic discourse analysis. The contributions to this collected volume build on these developments and investigate the linguistic foundations of narration from various perspectives. The contributions address topics such as speech and thought representation, free indirect speech, information structure, anaphora resolution, co-speech gestures, classifier constructions as well as on role shift and constructed action. The volume provides new insights in the linguistic structures underlying narration in written, spoken, and sign languages from an experimental, developmental, historical, typological, and theoretical perspective.

Author representations in literary reading / / Eefje Claassen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961415303321
• Autore: Claassen Eefje
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 9786613720948; 9781280879630; 1280879637; 9789027274939; 9027274932
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Collana: Linguistic approaches to literature, , 1569-3112 ; ; v. 11
• Disciplina: 801/.95
• Soggetti: Discourse analysis, Literary; Literature - History and criticism; Criticism
• 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: Author Representations in Literary Reading; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Theoretical positions towards the author concept; 1.1 Death of the Author; 1.1.2 Intentional Fallacy; 1.1.3 Narrator vs. Author; 1.1.4 Implied Author; 1.2 Resurrection of the Author; 1.2.1 Feminist and postcolonial approaches; 1.2.2 False identities; 1.2.3 Profession: writer and personality; 1.3 Reception aesthetics; 1.4 Discourse theory; 1.4.1 Author intent and attitude; 1.4.2 Literary comprehension; 1.5 Empirical research in authorial representation; 1.5.1 Reading satirical stories1.5.2 Understanding metaphors; 1.5.3 Reading strategies; 1.5.4 Reading in an educational context; 1.6 Taking position; 1.6.1 Motivation; 1.6.2 Aims and objectives; 1.6.3 Terminology; 1.6.4 Assumptions; 2. Author inferences in thinking aloud; 2.1 Methodological considerations on the think-aloud method; 2.2 An exploratory study: inference categories; 2.2.1 Method; 2.2.2 A first impression; 2.3 Protocol analysis; 2.3.1 Transcribing and segmenting; 2.3.2 Defining inference categories and setting up a coding scheme; 2.3.3 Coding protocols: procedures and intercoder reliability2.4 Protocol analysis and post-reading tasks; 2.4.1 Results of protocol analysis; 2.4.2 Factors instruction, text and reader expertise; 2.4.3 Results of post-reading tasks; 2.5 Discussion; 2.5.1 Reader-generated author inferences; 2.5.2 Effects of factors on inference generation; 2.5.3 Conceptual and methodological implications; 3. Reading as joint pretence; 3.1 Theoretical considerations on the reading of fiction; 3.1.1 Speech act theories; 3.1.3 Limitations of the game of make-believe; 3.2 Selection of materials: a pilot study; 3.2.1 Method3.3 Effects of text manipulation on author inferences reports (Experiment 1); 3.3.1 Method; 3.4 Results; 3.4.1 A first impression; 3.4.2 Manipulation check of text stimulus; 3.4.3 Readers and default assumptions about the implied author; 3.5 Discussion; 4. On-line measurement of author inferences through affective priming I; 4.1 Affective priming paradigm; 4.1.1 Two studies; 4.1.2 Underlying mechanisms; 4.1.3 Possibilities and limitations; 4.2 Three pilot studies; 4.2.1 Selection of text primes; 4.2.2 Pilot study I: Results and conclusion; 4.2.3 Selection of targets; 4.2.4 Pilot Study II: Results and conclusion4.2.5 Selection of author prime; 4.2.6 Pilot Study III: Results and conclusion; 4.3 Effects of author information on the generation of author inferences (Experiment 2); 4.3.1 Method; 4.4 Results; 4.4.1 Manipulation check of author prime; 4.4.2 Affective priming effects and reading times; 4.4.3 Post-reading measurements; 4.5 Discussion; 5. On-line measurement of author inferences through affective priming II; 5.1 Effects of detailed author information on the generation of author inferences (Experiment 3); 5.1.1 Method; 5.2 Results; 5.2.1 Manipulation check of primes and targets
• Sommario/riassunto: Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence. By combining insights and methods from both cognitive psychology and literary theory, this book contributes to a better understanding of how readers process literary texts and what role their assumptions about an author play. A series of experiments demonstrate that reader