Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English
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 betwee...
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| author | Altshuler, Daniel |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-471172023-12-20T18:09:16Z Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English Altshuler, Daniel P1-1091 narrative progression abduction discourse coherence rhetorical relations states attitude reports indexicality indirect speech times anaphora Events aspect sequence of tense tense adverbs deixis bic Book Industry Communication::C Language 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. 2021-02-11T13:11:45Z 2021-02-11T13:11:45Z 2017-01-18 15:26:23 2016 book 20170 9783110485912 9783110486452 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47117 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110485912 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110485912 10.1515/9783110485912 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110485912 9783110486452 x, 176 open access |
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