Parentheticals and the presentation of multipersonal consciousness: A stylistic analysis of Mrs Dalloway

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaxiao Cui
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Single Sentence ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Free Indirect Style ◽  
Narrative Techniques

The presentation of consciousness in Mrs Dalloway has long been a focus of study, and many scholars have investigated Woolf’s narrative techniques in this regard, especially her use of Free Indirect Style. However, most of the existing studies mainly concentrate on the consciousness presentation of individual characters. Few studies have provided adequate accounts concerning the arrangement of the shifting narrative viewpoints and the linguistic mechanism that facilitates the ‘multipersonal representation of consciousness’ in this novel (Auerbach, 2003 [1953]: 536). This article attempts to fill this research gap by examining the use of parentheticals in Mrs Dalloway. The syntactic independence of a parenthetical gives it a degree of freedom to digress from its host, which makes this construction a convenient device to bring in new sources of consciousness and thus shift the narrative viewpoint from one character to another. The frequent viewpoint shifts subvert the convention of adhering to a single coherent narrative point of view. Meanwhile, using parentheticals allows Woolf to present multiple points of view within a short stretch of text, even within a single sentence. In this way, a sense of simultaneity is created. Distinct sources of consciousness are brought closer to each other; the very boundaries between individual minds seem to be blurred.

scholarly journals Exploiting Inter- and Intra-Base Crossing with Multi-Mappings: Application to Environmental Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hicham Hajj-Hassan ◽  
Anne Laurent ◽  
Arnaud Martin
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Location ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Single Data

Environmental data are currently gaining more and more interest as they are required to understand global changes. In this context, sensor data are collected and stored in dedicated databases. Frameworks have been developed for this purpose and rely on standards, as for instance the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) provided by the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC), where all measurements are bound to a so-called Feature of Interest (FoI). These databases are used to validate and test scientific hypotheses often formulated as correlations and causality between variables, as for instance the study of the correlations between environmental factors and chlorophyll levels in the global ocean. However, the hypotheses of the correlations to be tested are often difficult to formulate as the number of variables that the user can navigate through can be huge. Moreover, it is often the case that the data are stored in such a manner that they prevent scientists from crossing them in order to retrieve relevant correlations. Indeed, the FoI can be a spatial location (e.g., city), but can also be any other object (e.g., animal species). The same data can thus be represented in several manners, depending on the point of view. The FoI varies from one representation to the other one, while the data remain unchanged. In this article, we propose a novel methodology including a crucial step to define multiple mappings from the data sources to these models that can then be crossed, thus offering multiple possibilities that could be hidden from the end-user if using the initial and single data model. These possibilities are provided through a catalog embedding the multiple points of view and allowing the user to navigate through these points of view through innovative OLAP-like operations. It should be noted that the main contribution of this work lies in the use of multiple points of view, as many other works have been proposed for manipulating, aggregating visualizing and navigating through geospatial information. Our proposal has been tested on data from an existing environmental observatory from Lebanon. It allows scientists to realize how biased the representations of their data are and how crucial it is to consider multiple points of view to study the links between the phenomena.

Developments in Practice

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Author(s):  
Isabel Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
Complex Field ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Points Of View

‘How do we understand that which we seek to act upon?’ Theory puts things which we see or know or hypothesise about into a system in order to make sense of what otherwise would be inscrutable in order to spot gaps and biases, and also to challenge the illusion that we know answers which we do not yet have. Some people become very uneasy by the fact of multiple points of view or the absence of complete agreement. They choose one point of view and they seek to destroy or denigrate all others. Or they may repudiate all concepts and use only intuition, common sense it's called. I suppose that the middle ground might be meriting our attention. I don't think that in our complex field of human relations and services to parents and children that it is very easy to simplify. You remember the comment There's a solution to all human problems. It's neat, and it's obvious and it's wrong'.

The Impact of Emergent Technologies in the Evolutionary Path for M-Commerce

2021 ◽  
pp. 824-844
Author(s):  
Justino Lourenço ◽  
Fernando Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Evolutionary Path ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Impact

M-commerce is a fast-growing opportunity and is acting as an innovative lever for achieving the purpose of increasing sales while better interacting with the clients. Simultaneously, several emerging technologies have appeared in the market and promise to change the current m-commerce paradigm. Therefore, this chapter plans to explore a set of new trend technologies that can plan to build a more efficient relation between the consumer and the m-commerce platform. This study conducted surveys with several market players like marketers and IT leaders to understand their point of view, perceive the relevance and impact of these emergent technologies in m-commerce, identify resistance and challenge points to the proposed change, and look how to allow cohabitation between this new e-commerce paradigm and the traditional physical trade. The main novelty of this study is the inclusion of multiple points of view on the evolution of m-commerce which will allow companies and citizens to perceive the impact of emerging technologies in the future of m-commerce.

The Impact of Emergent Technologies in the Evolutionary Path for M-Commerce

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Justino Lourenço ◽  
Fernando Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Evolutionary Path ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Impact

M-commerce is a fast-growing opportunity and is acting as an innovative lever for achieving the purpose of increasing sales while better interacting with the clients. Simultaneously, several emerging technologies have appeared in the market and promise to change the current m-commerce paradigm. Therefore, this chapter plans to explore a set of new trend technologies that can plan to build a more efficient relation between the consumer and the m-commerce platform. This study conducted surveys with several market players like marketers and IT leaders to understand their point of view, perceive the relevance and impact of these emergent technologies in m-commerce, identify resistance and challenge points to the proposed change, and look how to allow cohabitation between this new e-commerce paradigm and the traditional physical trade. The main novelty of this study is the inclusion of multiple points of view on the evolution of m-commerce which will allow companies and citizens to perceive the impact of emerging technologies in the future of m-commerce.

scholarly journals Linguistic, gestural, and cinematographic viewpoint: An analysis of ASL and English narrative

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fey Parrill ◽  
Kashmiri Stec ◽  
David Quinto-Pozos ◽  
Sebastian Rimehaug
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Visual Description ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractMultimodal narrative can help us understand how conceptualizers schematize information when they create mental representations of films and may shed light on why some cinematic conventions are easier or harder for viewers to integrate. This study compares descriptions of a shot/reverse shot sequence (a sequence of camera shots from the viewpoints of different characters) across users of English and American Sign Language (ASL). We ask which gestural and linguistic resources participants use to narrate this event. Speakers and signers tended to represent the same characters via the same point of view and to show a single perspective rather than combining multiple perspectives simultaneously. Neither group explicitly mentioned the shift in cinematographic perspective. We argue that encoding multiple points of view might be a more accurate visual description, but is avoided because it does not create a better narrative.

"Si te dicen que caí" (1973), de Juan Marsé: usos, modulaciones y funcionalidad del discurso polifónico en el entramado rizomático de las aventis

2018 ◽  
pp. 485-505
Author(s):  
Fernando N. Valcheff
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Juan Marse ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Textual Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Proposal

El presente trabajo se propone indagar acerca de las estrategias textuales que configuran la novela Si te dicen que caí (1973), del escritor español Juan Marsé, con el objetivo de identificar cuáles son los procedimientos y técnicas narrativas que le permiten al autor diseñar una obra en la que proliferan múltiples puntos de vista de la mano con un perspectivismo plural y abierto. Para analizar este entramado, buscaremos recuperar y poner en funcionamiento los planteos de Mijail Bajtín acerca del dialogismo y la polifonía en Problemas de la poética de Dostoievsky (1986) haciéndolos dialogar con la propuesta de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari en Rizoma (1972), así como con los aportes críticos de otros autores que trabajaron la obra de Marsé. En última instancia, nos centraremos en el estudio de tres aspectos cruciales para la novela: el rol de las aventis en la trama narrativa, el despliegue de juegos autoreflexivos y de máscaras metaficcionales, y las referencias intra e intertextuales que pueblan el universo de la obra, con el propósito último de complementar y enriquecer los estudios acerca de la novela disponibles en la actualidad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                This paper seeks to inquire about the textual strategies that configure the novel Si te dicen que caí (1973), by Spanish writer Juan Marsé, with the gold of identifying which procedures and narrative techniques allow the author to design a piece of work in which multiple points of view are in constant proliferation. In order to analyze this literary scheme, we will recover the considerations by Mijail Bajtin relating to polyphony and dialogism in Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics (1986) making them dialogue with the theoretical proposal by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Rhizome (1972), and also with the critical contributions of other authors that analyzed Marse’s work. Finally, we will study three crucial aspects of the novel: the functioning of the Aventis in the narrative plot, the deploying of self-reflexiveness and metafictional masks, and the intertextual and intratextual references that populate the novel’s universe, with the ultimate purpose of complementing and enriching the studies about the novel available at the moment.

scholarly journals Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Giulia Grisot ◽  
Kathy Conklin ◽  
Violeta Sotirova
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Free Indirect Style ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Experimental Use ◽  
Experience Difficulty ◽  
Detailed Questionnaire

Woolf’s work has been the object of several studies concerned with her experimental use of techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation. These investigated the way in which different perspectives coexist and alternate in her writing, suggesting that the use of such techniques often results in ambiguous perspective shifts. However, there is hardly any empirical evidence as to whether readers experience difficulty while reading her narratives as a result of these narrative techniques. This article examines empirically readers’ responses to extracts from Woolf’s two major novels – To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway – to provide evidence for whether Woolf’s techniques for the presentation of characters’ voices, thoughts and perspectives represent a challenge for readers. To achieve this, a mixed-methods approach that combines a stylistic analysis with a detailed questionnaire has been employed. Selected extracts that were hypothesised to be complex due to the presence of free indirect style and/or interior monologue were modified by substituting these with less ambiguous modes of consciousness presentation, such as direct speech or direct thought. Readers’ responses to the modified and unmodified versions of the same extracts were compared: results show that the presence of free indirect style and/or interior monologue increases the number of perspectives identified by readers, suggesting that this technique increases the texts’ difficulty, laying a more solid ground for future investigations.

scholarly journals دراسة لنظرية الانتقال الاشاري بوصفة منهجا اسلوبيا في تحليل تأثيرات وجهة النظر في الخطاب السردي

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Ali Abdulilah Gheni
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Cognitive Attitude

Traditionally, most approaches to stylistic analysis are not related to cognitive processes by which readers are engaged and conceptualized to a particular point of view while reading a text. Against this account , emerged through 1980s and 1990s, various stylistic models for identifying categories of point of view in fiction, and this brings a cognitive perspective in analysis of narrative stylistics. Deictic shift theory is an act to demonstrate how readers are completely engaged in narratives, to a degree that they interpret events in narrative as if they were experiencing them from a position within the story world. According to Segal(1995,p15),deictic shift theory (henceforth DST) means that '' the reader often takes a cognitive attitude within the world of narrative and interprets the text from that perspective' 'and this happens as a result of deictic shifts within the narratives that change the deictic center from which the sentences of the text are interpreted. It follows that such changes in the deictic center across the course of a text will result in changes in the point of view that readers will be exposed to(Mclntyre,2006,p92).The present study aims to investigate the role of deictic shift theory as a cognitive perspective to point of view effects in the selected poem written by Seamus Heaney in his famous poem '' Mossbawn'' . The emphasis will be shifted away from narrative techniques towards theconceptual framework that tackles the cognitive processes of both reading and interpretation. However, the study will show how applying DST is an indispensable in tackling stylistic analysis to point of view which develops our understanding of the construction of viewpoints in language.The analysis has shown that the cognitive work of DST is used as a device in the poem in order to arrive at the comprehensive meaning of text. The poet uses different deictic shifts and projection of viewpoints of personal pronoun, locational, and temporal deixis and references which are interrelated between the fictional text world of the poem and the real central world of the reader. Also, it is seen that in cognitive terms there is a shift between the past and the present, a rapid back and forth shift of deictic center and field which is tackled by the reader's perspective

NONSENSE, ABSURDITY AND PARADOX AS LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL CATEGORIES

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ontological Category ◽  
Ordinary Meaning ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Human Thinking

In the article the analysis of nonsense, absurdity and paradox from the standpoint of linguistics is giv-en. Different points of view on these categories in relation to the meaning are considered. An attempt is made to reveal the commonality and specificity of nonsense, absurdity and paradox. Some researchers consider nonsense and paradox as a kind of absurdity. There is a dichotomous point of view on nonsense as one of the components of absurdity. However, there are works where these categories are differentiat-ed, for example, absurdity is understood as an ontological category, and nonsense as an epistemological category. There is a view of these categories through the allocation of "non-sense", "out-sense" and 136 "counter-sense" there is also a view that in the case of nonsense we are talking about the incompatibility of representations, and in the case of absurdity-the incompatibility of objects. If there are criteria that allow us to consider the presence of this phenomenon as natural, absurdity ceases to exist. Consequently, the view is expressed that nonsense, absurdity and paradox are different categories of thinking. Paradox is a contradiction arising from the presence of two or more common sense. The absurdity can be seen as a" counter-sense» opposing common sense and putting forward the concept of active impossibility of the latter's existence. As for nonsense, it is the meaning of metaphysical level – a meaning that goes beyond the ordinary meaning and creates new meanings. It is concluded that nonsense, absurdity and paradox are independent categories of human thinking, which is a manifestation of the cognitive function of hu-man consciousness.

scholarly journals Assessment of Poverty by Municipalities in the Context of Population Ageing—The Case of Małopolskie Voivodeship

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2563
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Ćwiek ◽  
Katarzyna Maj-Waśniowska ◽  
Katarzyna Stabryła-Chudzio
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Variables ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Research Gap

This article undertakes the research problem of the assessment of the significance of poverty as a social challenge for local self-government units, and the differences in the assessment of the incidence of this phenomenon depending on the type of municipality. The authors also analyse the relationships between the ageing of the population and the assessment of the extent of poverty by municipalities. It must be pointed out that the undertaken problem has not been a subject of in-depth analysis thus far. Hence, this article fills the identified research gap in this field. The empirical part is based on the results of our own research, conducted using the Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) method on a sample of 144 municipalities of the Małopolskie Voivodship (Poland). In order to verify whether there is a relationship between the researched qualitative variables, the chi-square test of independence was used. In order to determine the relationships occurring between the categories of variables characterising the scale of the incidence of poverty and the remaining variables, a correspondence analysis was conducted. The research enabled us to find the issue of poverty to be one of the most important social problems from the point of view of municipalities. It is also worth noting that the degree of ageing in the population has an impact on the assessment of poverty among the elderly.

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