Fictional Discourse

Author : Hans J. Lind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429887611

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Fictional Discourse and the Law by Hans J. Lind Pdf

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse. Pursuing an empirical approach, and using examples that range from Victorian literature to the current judicial treatment of rap music, the volume challenges the prevailing fact–fiction dichotomy in legal theory and practice by providing a better understanding of the peculiarities of legal fictionality, while also contributing further material to fictional theory’s endeavor to find a transdisciplinary valid criterion for a definition of fictional discourse. Following the basic presumptions of the early law-as-literature movement, past approaches have mainly focused on textuality and narrativity as the common denominators of law and literature, and have largely ignored the topic of fictionality. This volume provides a much needed analysis of this gap. The book will be of interest to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence and legal writing, along with literature scholars and students of literature and the humanities.

Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192595966

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Fictional Discourse by Stefano Predelli Pdf

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about literary characters.

Author : Andrew Wright,Sandra Singer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349185641

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Fictional Discourse and Historical Space by Andrew Wright,Sandra Singer Pdf

Author : Edwin David Mares
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000001670482

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The Logic of Fictional Discourse by Edwin David Mares Pdf

Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198854128

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Fictional Discourse by Stefano Predelli Pdf

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about literary characters.

Author : Linda A. Wood,Rolf O. Kroger
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506320113

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Doing Discourse Analysis by Linda A. Wood,Rolf O. Kroger Pdf

Providing both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for those steps, this book shows students how the social world revolves around talk and text. The authors draw on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, and the discursive approach developed in social psychology. The book presents actual examples, covers data collection methods and strategies for data analysis, and addresses issues of reliability and validity.

Author : Ganakumaran Subramaniam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015079352475

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Ideological Stylistics and Fictional Discourse by Ganakumaran Subramaniam Pdf

This book focuses on ideology and its function in fictional discourse, exploring the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in text-production environments. It attempts this through a specific focus on the social and linguistic elements that control the presence, the use, and the presentation of ideology, and also the way in which linguistic elements are controlled and manipulated by the collective consciousness of the text producer. This correlation between fictional discourse and ideology is revealed through a series of chapters that cover four closely interrelated areas, focusing specifically on Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. Firstly, the positioning of Malaysian and Singaporean literatures in English as individual literary traditions. This is to counter the non-recognition of Malaysian and Singaporean literatures as individual traditions in spite of five decades of independence. Secondly, establishing a contextual (socio-cultural and political) framework as a basis for discussion on real ideology, arguing that Malaysian and Singaporean writers have moved beyond the anti-western nationalistic stage and on to more personal and communal concerns such as race relations, identity and a sense of belonging. Thirdly, rationalising the social structures of ideology that are likely to be found in the Malaysian and Singaporean social milieus, especially location and text-specific social variables of ideology. Lastly, it seeks to reveal a linguistic-oriented approach for the study of textual ideologies and for linking textual ideologies to ideologies in the overall text production environment. The book ultimately shows the significant possibilities of systematic links between textual ideology, and the real ideology in the text production environment, through what can best be termed as ideological stylistics. In doing so, it aims to contribute significantly to studies of ideology in general and more specifically on ideology on Malaysian and Singaporean literatures in English.

Author : Dorrit Cohn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801865220

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The Distinction of Fiction by Dorrit Cohn Pdf

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techniques are usually held in contempt, but works of fiction that include history are among the greatest of classics. Fiction claims to be able to convey its own unique kinds of truth. But unless a reader knows in advance whether a narrative is fictional or not, judgment can be frustrated and confused. In The Distinction of Fiction, Dorrit Cohn argues that fiction does present specific clues to its fictionality, and its own justifications. Indeed, except in cases of deliberate deception, fiction achieves its purposes best by exercising generic conventions that inform the reader that it is fiction. Cohn tests her conclusions against major narrative works, including Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu, Mann's Death in Venice, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Freud's case studies. She contests widespread poststructuralist views that all narratives are fictional. On the contrary, she separates fiction and nonfiction as necessarily distinct, even when bound together. An expansion of Cohn's Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton and the product of many years of labor and thought, The Distinction of Fiction builds on narratological and phenomenological theories to show that boundaries between fiction and history can be firmly and systematically explored.

Author : Sobeira Latorre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Spanish American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127432008

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Criss-crossing Gender, Autobiography and History in Latina Auto-fictional Discourse by Sobeira Latorre Pdf

Author : Silke Braselmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110647624

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The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse by Silke Braselmann Pdf

Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglected thus far. However, in a discourse in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are increasingly blurred, this book shows how fiction shapes and structures, challenges and disrupts cultural processes of meaning-making. Hence, for a better understanding of the school shooting phenomenon, the relevance of fiction on all levels of discourse construction requires thorough analysis. This book therefore develops a new approach to the role of fiction for contemporary forms of excessive violence. By combining narrative theory with insights from sociology and other disciplines, it provides the means for apprehending and describing the relevance of fiction for contemporary discourses. Furthermore, it provides exemplary analyses of more specific functions of literary and filmic fictionalizations of school shootings between 2000 and 2016.

Author : Roberta Piazza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441182579

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The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond by Roberta Piazza Pdf

Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day. It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies. It explores the representation of discourse in cinema -- the way particular manifestations of verbal interaction are reproduced in film. Whereas 'representation' generally refers to the language used in texts to assign meaning to a group and its social practices, here discourse representation more directly refers to the relationship between real-life and cinematic discourse. Piazza analyses how fictional dialogue reinterprets authentic interaction in order to construe particular meanings. Beginning by exploring the relationship between discourse and genre, the second half of the book takes a topic-based approach and reflects on the themes of narrative and identity. The analysis carried out takes on board the multi-semiotic and multimodal components of film discourse. The book uses also uses concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

Author : Peter Wallace Alward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780773540385

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Empty Revelations by Peter Wallace Alward Pdf

A rich and engaging investigation into the nature of literary fiction.

Author : Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802035779

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Literary Discourse by Jørgen Dines Johansen Pdf

Using the semiotic theory of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Johansen applies psychoanalysis, psychology, literary hermeneutics, literary history, Habermasian communication, and discourse theory to literature, and, in the process, redefines it.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107071247

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Discourse and Knowledge by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

Both 'discourse' and 'knowledge' are fundamental concepts, but they are often treated separately. The first book to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between these concepts, Discourse and Knowledge introduces the new field of epistemic discourse analysis and uses a wide range of examples to illustrate the theory.

Author : Peter Lamarque
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801432162

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Fictional Points of View by Peter Lamarque Pdf

The volume focuses on a wide range of thinkers, including Iris Murdoch on truth and art, Stanley Cavell on tragedy, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault on "the death of the author," and Kendall Walton on fearing fictions. Also included is a consideration of the fifteenth-century Japanese playwright and drama teacher Zeami Motokiyo, the founding father of Noh theather.