World Building in Spanish and English Spoken NarrativesBloomsbury Publishing, 16 jun 2016 - 256 páginas Text World Theory is a powerful framework for discourse analysis that, thus far, has only been used in monolingual Anglophone stylistic analyses. This work adapts Text World Theory for the analysis of Spanish discourse, and in doing so suggests some improvements to the way in which it deals with discourse - in particular, with direct speech and conditional expressions. Furthermore, it applies Text World Theory in a novel way, searching not for style in language, but for the style of a language. Focusing principally on deixis and modality, the author examines whether Spanish speakers and English speakers construct the narrative text-world in any patterned ways. To do so, the 'frog story' methodology is employed, eliciting spoken narratives from native adult speakers of both languages by means of a children's picture book. These narratives are transcribed and subjected to a qualitative text-world analysis, which is supported with a quantitative corpus analysis. The results reveal contrasts in Spanish and English speakers' use of modality and deixis in building the same narrative text-world, and are relevant to scholars working in language typology, cross-cultural pragmatics and translation studies. These novel applications of the Text World Theory push the boundaries of stylistics in new directions, broadening the focus from monolingual texts to languages at large. |
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2 Deixis and Modality | 17 |
3 The Frog Story Corpus | 41 |
4 TextWorld Theory | 59 |
5 Departures from the TextWorld | 81 |
6 Analysis of Temporal World Building | 111 |
7 Analysis of Spatial Personal and Modal World Building | 143 |
8 Conclusions | 181 |
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Appendix I | 209 |
Appendix II | 210 |
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Términos y frases comunes
AE narrators analysis anaphora anchor tense AntConc backtracking Berman and Slobin British English Bull’s cent chapter characters clause cognitive Cognitive Linguistics conditional tense context corpus deictic and modal deictic centre deictic expression deictic reference Deictic Shift deictic terms deixis and modality demonstratives deontic modality described dimensions Direct Speech discourse participants discourse-world distal enactor text-world encoding English speakers English-speaking narrators entities epistemic markers epistemic modal-worlds epistemic modality example fictional framework frequently frog story narratives function-advancing Furthermore Gavins hypothetical hypothetical-world language varieties linguistic meaning modal auxiliary verbs narrator’s past tense perfective aspect picture possible worlds present tense propositions proximal relation remote represented discourse Section shows Spanish and English Spanish speakers Spanish-speaking narrators spatial adverbs spoken narrative style Stylistics subjunctive subjunctive mood switches Table temporal deictic temporal expressions temporal world building temporal world-switches tense system text linguistics text-world diagram Text-World Theory transcription Werth