LINGUIST List 31.2470
Tue Aug 04 2020
Books: Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction: Busse
Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburnlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Jul-2020
From: Oxford University Press <HumanitiesMarketing
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Subject: Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction: Busse
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century
Narrative Fiction
Subtitle: A Corpus-Assisted Approach
Series Title: Oxford Studies in the History of English
Published: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/speech-writing-and-thought-presentation-in-19th-century-narrative-fiction-9780190212360?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics Author: Beatrix Busse
Hardback: ISBN: 9780190212360 Pages: 252 Price: U.S. $ 74.00
Abstract:
In this book, Beatrix Busse investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including "Frankenstein", "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "Oliver Twist", and many others. At the intersection between corpus linguistics and stylistics, this book develops a new corpus-stylistic approach for systematically analyzing the different narrative strategies of discourse presentation in key pieces of 19th-century narrative fiction. "Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction" identifies diachronic patterns as well as unique authorial styles, and places them within their cultural-historical context. It also suggests ways for automatically identifying forms of discourse presentation, and shows that the presentation of characters' minds reflects an ideological as well as an epistemological concern about what cannot be reported, portrayed, or narrated. Through insightful interdisciplinary analysis, Busse demonstrates that discourse presentation fulfills the function of prospection and encapsulation, marks narrative progression, and shapes readers' expectations.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Written In: English (eng)
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