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Narrative progression in the short story : a corpus stylistic approach /
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader's forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. --From publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290618 902729061X 1282104802 9781282104808 9786612104800 6612104805 |
| ISSN: | 1569-3112 ; |