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This paper is intended as an contrastive study of present narrative in French and in Japanese within the framework of Mental Space Theory. In French the so called "historical present" is a metaphorical use of present tense intending to convey past events as if it were now present before th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Francés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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Colección: | Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ;
v. 29, |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This paper is intended as an contrastive study of present narrative in French and in Japanese within the framework of Mental Space Theory. In French the so called "historical present" is a metaphorical use of present tense intending to convey past events as if it were now present before the speaker's eye. But in Japanese the present tense is used to describe the state of past situations without any stylistic effects. The difference comes from the different tense systems of the two languages. In French all events must be indicated from the speaker's position, but Japanese tense indicate only th. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027271440 9027271445 1299794742 9781299794740 |
ISSN: | 0165-7569 ; |