Narrative progression in the short story : a corpus stylistic approach /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toolan, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 6.
Temas:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Short story > Technique.
Fiction > Authorship.
Narration.
Nouvelle > Technique.
Roman > Art d'écrire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Fiction > Authorship
Short story > Technique
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : narrative prospecting
  • Collocation and corpus stylistics
  • Lexical patternings in short stories
  • Top keyword sentences as story waymarking
  • Keywords and the language of guidance in "The love of a good woman"
  • Repetition and para-repetition in story structure
  • Prospection and expectation : core signalling
  • Prospection and expectation : embedded signalling
  • The textual tracking of suspense and surprise
  • Next steps.

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