How to Show Things with Words : : A Study on Logic, Language and Literature /

How to Show Things with Words : : A Study on Logic, Language and Literature / / Rui Linhares-Dias.

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How to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and philosophy which sheds new light on the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption in discourse. Narrative distance ultimately depends on the epistemological source o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Linhares-Dias, Rui,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2006
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 155
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XXII
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Prolegomena
  • 1. The linguistic structure of narrative transmission
  • 2. Linguistics in narratology: A critical historical survey
  • 3. The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity
  • Part 2: The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse
  • 4. Tense
  • 5. Aspect
  • 6. Aktionsart
  • 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.1. Introduction
  • 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.2. -STAT eventuality descriptions
  • 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.3. +STAT eventuality descriptions
  • 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.4. World-knowledge based event semantics
  • 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.5. Concluding remarks
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index of names
  • Index of subjects

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