Indexing narrative metalepsis in German conversational story-telling

Pragmatics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Bücker
Keyword(s):  
Extended Version ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this study is to show that direct speech in narratives introduced by “von wegen” (‘like’) and “nach dem Motto” (‘along the lines of’) can be analyzed as a powerful means to transform a stretch of talk into a massive “stance index” which transcends the boundaries between the narrator’s world and the narrated world in terms of narrative metalepsis. “Von wegen” and “nach dem Motto” are non-canonical reporting frames which are syntactically flexible and semantically facilitate a transformation of direct speech into a “category-animation”. For these reasons, they can be employed spontaneously in spoken talk-in-interaction and make it possible to shape a stretch of direct speech creatively in order to position oneself, other discourse participants and narrated characters as committed or non-committed to what is seen to be a relevant normative point of reference. The way direct speech introduced by “von wegen” and “nach dem Motto” can be used to construct positions in order to evaluate discourse participants and narrated characters can be grasped schematically by means of a slightly revised and extended version of Du Bois’ “stance triangle”.

Speech Acts by the Governor Candidates of North Sumatera in Political Debates

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidya Dwi Amalia Zati ◽  
Sumarsih Sumarsih ◽  
Lince Sihombing
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The Way ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The objectives of the research were to describe the types of speech acts used in televised political debates of governor candidates of North Sumatera, to derive the dominant type of speech acts used in televised political debates of governor candidates of North Sumatera and to elaborate the way of five governor candidates of North Sumatera use speech acts in televised political debates. This research was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative research. The findings show that there were only four types of speech acts used in televised political debates, Debat Pemilukada Sumatera Utara and Uji Publik Cagub dan Cawagub Sumatera Utara, they were assertives, directives, commissives and expressives. The dominant type of speech acts used in both televised political debates was assertives, with 82 utterances or 51.6% in Debat Pemilukada Sumatera Utara and 36 utterances or 41.37% in Uji Publik Cagub dan Cawagub Sumatera Utara. The way of governor candidates of North Sumatera used speech acts in televised political debates is in direct speech acts, they spoke straight to the point and clearly in order to make the other candidates and audiences understand their utterances.   Keywords: Governor Candidate; Political Debate; Speech Acts

scholarly journals Vatersehnsucht. Botho Strauß erzählt sich seine Herkunft

2017 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Andrzej Denka
Keyword(s):  
Literary Form ◽  
Sensory Stimuli ◽  
Narrative Fragments ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Way

Botho Strauß (b. 1944), German playwright, novelist and essayist, devotes his book Herkunft [Origin] (2014) to a subtle portrait of his slightly underestimated father, who died in 1971. This sample of prose is typical of Strauss as it encompasses meditative descriptions, disquisitions, aphorisms and narrative fragments. This narration contains numerous biographical details about his father, as well as his mother and the writer himself, and it tells us a lot about his youth and cultural maturation. Strauss’ hometown, Bad Ems, provides a certain topographic point of reference here. This is a highly personal and emotional text which simultaneously exhibits all esthetic properties that characterize Strauss’ style. This text is also about the way different sensory stimuli incite our memory and how difficult it is to find a literary form adequate to reconstruct memory.

Showing versus telling

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosario Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Motion Events ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
The Way

In this paper I provide a qualitative description of the verbs used to introduce Direct Speech (DS) in fictional narratives written in English and their Spanish translations in order to compare the way these two languages reconstruct speech events in texts by means of both speech verbs (e.g. say/decir, counter/argumentar, declare/manifestar) and non-speech verbs (e.g. grin/sonreír, scowl/fruncir el ceño). Using a corpus of popular fictional narrative genres and drawing upon typological research on motion after the work by Talmy (1985, 1988, 1991) and Slobin (1996a, 1996b, 2004, 2005, 2006). I look into the strategies used in English and Spanish for recreating speech events in order to explore whether the typological differences between these languages are replicated in the case of speech. The hypothesis is that, contrary to what happens with motion events, the differences between English and Spanish do not rest upon lexical availability but, rather, on the weight placed in different speech elements in agreement with two different agendas regarding speech events. While congruent with typological studies, this piece of research attempts to broaden their scope and explore a topic still underexplored.

scholarly journals Corpus Methodologies in Literary Translation Studies: An Analysis of Speech Verbs in Four Spanish Translations of Hard Times

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Ruano
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Novel ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

In this article, speech verbs in Dickens’sHard Times(1854) and their translation into Spanish are analyzed. Apart from their basic function of introducing speech, these verbs can also contribute to characterization. The regular occurrence of a particular speech verb to report the direct speech of a particular character helps to create a fictional personality. Given the important role they may play, the rendering of such verbs in four Spanish versions of this novel is assessed. To do so, a corpus-based methodology has been employed. A concordancing software was used to retrieve speech verbs from the original novel, allowing their close analysis in context. Then, using an aligned parallel corpus containing the four versions, a comparison was carried out to see how they have been rendered. Evidence is provided that none of the four translations entirely preserves the characterizing value of the verbs, which may affect the way readers form impressions of characters in their minds. The use of this corpus metholodogy is thus seen to contribute to the field of literary translation studies.

scholarly journals Democracy and Competing Values

1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Saward
Keyword(s):  
Competing Values ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Way

Where it is Practised, Democracy is a) Not The Only principle practised, and b) practised differently from the way it is practised in other places. If democracy has a clear meaning and clear requirements – I shall argue that it does – then we should be able to map out the bases on which degrees of democracy are traded off in the name of other values, and with what justification. In attempting to make some inroads into the serious conceptual and empirical problems this topic presents, my point of reference will be the modern nationstate, though the use of the phrase ‘political units’ throughout signals the fact that the argument largely holds for other geographically-defined entities as well.

Oecuménisme méthodologique et dialogue entre paradigmes

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (S1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Haldemann ◽  
Ron Lévy
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Internal Reference ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
External Point ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTWhile multi-method research is currently provoking much interest, there is little reflection on the legitimacy of this kind of research and on the conditions for achieving high quality research. This article first describes the scientific and socio-political contexts from which this movement towards multi-method research has emerged. It then goes on to discuss why comparative analysis is central to the triangulation of methods and why the notion of triangulation itself requires an external point of reference. It is suggested that the reason why we produce only half-hearted or even illigitimate comparisons is because the reference points are hidden. For multi-method research to be of high quality it must clearly externalize valid inferences at each moment in the spiral of knowledge, identify its analytical logic and establish its internal reference points. (This article is the result of joint research and the respective positions of the authors are reflected in the way in which the article is presented.)

scholarly journals Włoska historia jednego gatunku

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kowalik
Keyword(s):  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Way

The text is devoted to Giancarlo Alfano and Francesco de Cristofaro’s monograph Il roman­zo in Italia published in 2018. The work is an attempt to systematize the information about Italian tradition of the genre which nowadays unquestionably dominates the publishing market. Moreover, it describes the structure of the publication, metho­dological assumptions adopted by the authors, their objectives, and the way of their realisation. The analysis of these elements shows whether the work discussed can be an important point of reference for future academic works dedicated to Italian novels.

scholarly journals The human need for recognition of meanings in the communicative environment

Servis plus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Виктор Ильин ◽  
Viktor Il’in ◽  
Азер Мамедов ◽  
Azer Mamedov ◽  
Елена Бирюкова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Process ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
Epistemological Basis ◽  
The Way

Understanding is a cognitive mental process of signification resources of hermeneutics. Special attention is paid to the evaluation of such components of this process, as the recognition of meanings in the communicative environment; organization of texts; the dimension of the situation; the appeal to super-texts varieties. Authors emphasize that the formal organization of the text is controlled with canons of the intra-system logic focusing on implementation of prosaic or poetic works. The first are distinguished by direct speech; the second are returnable, rhythmic way of forming of the speech with periodic repetitions, interfaces, similarity of the alternating ranks. The article also pays attention to the plot, representing the way of content disclosure, subject expansion, a plot statement through explanation of system of actions – intellectual, behavioral movements during the narration about happening. There is a general cultural model aligning "the fact with the deep ideological background", – the outlined circle of the phenomena (ontological basis) is linked to a creative manner of its primary development (epistemological basis). The categorical areas entering extremely wide types of a world perception are so formatted and reformatted: causalism, teleology, functionalism, historicism, probabilism, etc.

scholarly journals Effect of Using Conjectures and Story-telling in Mathematics Learning: A Phenomenological Study of Two Teachers' Teaching Styles

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
K. C. Lila Bahadur
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
External Observer ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Cognitive Faculties ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this study was to describe the personal experience on the effect of story-telling and using conjecture in mathematics learning. This research was designed in hermeneutic phenomenological study. Accidental sampling procedure was used in this study since the researcher was as an external observer of B Ed students majoring mathematics. The researcher was innocent of pedagogical approach of student-teachers. Taking two student-teachers and their students of class eight as participants, their perceptions were noticed. Data were collected on the way of practice teaching external observation from two secondary schools of Butwal and Tilottama Municipality and analyzed with hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Research revealed that story telling is the way of humanizing mathematics, motivates students to the subject matter and the conjecture promotes students' cognitive faculties, logical thinking and develop the Heuristic capacity.

scholarly journals The tourist gaze in English, Italian and German travel articles about Puglia: A corpus-based study

ICAME Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Angela D’Egidio
Keyword(s):  
German Language ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Comparable Corpora ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Travel Articles ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper shows how online travel articles may provide important insights into how a tourist destination is perceived and to what extent what is known as the ‘tourist gaze’ may be used to recontextualise tourist material in order to produce more effective tourist texts, which meet receivers’ expectations. For this purpose, three comparable corpora of online travel articles in English, Italian and German language were assembled and analysed in order to understand the way ordinary travellers perceive and experience a tourist destination in Italy (Puglia) by taking language as a point of reference. The first fifteen words of the frequency lists in the three corpora highlighted what landmarks and elements of attraction English, Italian and German travel writers gaze at while on holiday in Puglia. The analysis demonstrated that the Italian tourist gaze is different from the English and German tourist gazes, since not all of them focus on the same landscapes, and even when they gaze at the same sights, their perception and representation are often different. The similarities and differences between the ways the tourists behave suggest a distinction between a model of ‘global gaze’ embodied by English and German travellers, seen as ‘outsiders’, and a model of ‘local gaze’ embodied by Italian tourists, seen as ‘insiders'

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