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By Barbara Dancygier

ISBN-10: 1107005825

ISBN-13: 9781107005822

ISBN-10: 1107558611

ISBN-13: 9781107558618

How can we learn tales? How do they have interaction our minds and create that means? Are they a psychological build, a linguistic one or a cultural one? what's the distinction among genuine tales and fictional ones? This e-book addresses such questions by way of describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, describing the tactics which force the emergence of literary that means. If a textual content capacity anything to somebody, she argues, there need to be linguistic phenomena that give the chance. Drawing on mixing conception and development grammar, the publication focuses its linguistic lens at the thoughts of the narrator and the tale, and defines narrative point of view in a brand new method. The examples come from a large spectrum of texts, basically novels and drama, by means of authors corresponding to William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Jan Potocki and Mikhail Bulgakov.

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