Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English

• Glavni avtor: Altshuler, Daniel (auth)
• Format: Elektronski Book Chapter
• Jezik: angleščina
• Izdano: De Gruyter 2016
• Teme: narrative progression; abduction; discourse coherence; rhetorical relations; states; attitude reports; indexicality; indirect speech; times; anaphora; Events; aspect; sequence of tense; tense; adverbs; deixis
• Online dostop: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Izvleček

This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb 'now' and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction between events, states and times and proposes that 'now' seeks a prominent state that holds throughout the time described by the tense. Building on prior research, prominence is shown to be influenced by principles of discourse coherence and two coherence principles, NARRATION and RESULT, are given a formally explicit characterization. The key innovation is a new method for testing the definitional adequacy of NARRATION and RESULT, namely by an abductive argument. This contribution opens a new way of thinking about how eventive and stative descriptions contribute to the perceived narrative progression in a discourse.

Fizični opis

1 electronic resource (x, 176 p.)

ISBN

9783110485912
9783110486452

DOI

10.1515/9783110485912

Dostop

Open Access