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The Logic of Narratives

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi, BRILL
Year
2020
ISBN
9004422129, 9789004422124
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4589085 bytes)
Series
Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication 35
Pages
216\254
Time added
2020-05-15 07:15:43

Description

The Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the logical aspect of narratives. The book provides Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) formalization (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) of naturally occurring narrative data from corpus and literary works. Dedication Contents List of Figures and Tables Part 1: Foundation 1 Introduction 2 Narrative Structure 3 The Theoretical Toolkit Part 2: Timeline 4 Tense and Aspect 5 The Pluperfect 6 The Progressive 7 Temporal Adverb Now Part 3: Character 8 Free Indirect Discourse 9 Indexicals 10 Definite NPs 11 Expressives 12 Conclusion Appendix: Episode Structure of The Dead References Index

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