scholarly journals O Gerente e a Recepcionista

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Jean Pierre Chauvin
Keyword(s):  
Agatha Christie

Publicado em 1965, O Caso do Hotel Bertram reúne algumas das caracterizações mais importantes, dentre os romances protagonizados por Miss Jane Marple. Neste ensaio, discutem-se os métodos empregados por Agatha Christie ao representar as diferentes classes sociais das personagens no romance, com ênfase nos retratos do gerente e da recepcionista do estabelecimento em que os crimes acontecem.

Shades of Agatha Christie

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 375-376
Author(s):  
LYNETTE K. FRIEDRICH-COFER
Keyword(s):  
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, reine de l’édition

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Marie-françoise Cachin
Keyword(s):  
Agatha Christie

Developing Readers: Lessons from Agatha Christie

Literacy ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Developing Readers ◽  
Agatha Christie

Unreliable Narration in Law and Fiction

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-338
Author(s):  
Daniel Del Gobbo
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
High Court ◽  
Law System ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Objective Interpretation ◽  
Essential Quality ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
The Common ◽  
Agatha Christie ◽  
Unreliable Narration

This article revisits long-standing debates about objective interpretation in the common law system by focusing on a crime novel by Agatha Christie and judicial opinion by the Ontario High Court. Conventions of the crime fiction and judicial opinion genres inform readers’ assumption that the two texts are objectively interpretable. This article challenges this assumption by demonstrating that unreliable narration is often, if not always, a feature of written communication. Judges, like crime fiction writers, are storytellers. While these authors might intend for their stories to be read in certain ways, the potential for interpretive disconnect between unreliable narrators and readers means there can be no essential quality that marks a literary or legal text’s meaning as objective. Taken to heart, this demands that judges try to narrate their decisions more reliably so that readers are able to interpret the texts correctly when it matters most.

scholarly journals Regular and Novel Metonymy: Can You Curl up with a Good Agatha Christie in Your Second Language?

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roumyana Slabakova ◽  
Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro ◽  
Sang Kyun Kang
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Second Language ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Psychological Reality ◽  
Experimental Support ◽  
Agatha Christie

Abstract This article presents results of two off-line comprehension tasks investigating the acceptability of unconventional and conventional metonymy by native speakers of Korean and Spanish who speak English as a second language. We are interested in discovering whether learners differentiate between conventional and unconventional metonymy, and whether the acceptability of metonymic expressions in the native language has an effect on learners’ judgments in the second language. The findings of this study constitute further experimental support for the psychological reality of the distinction between conventional and unconventional metonymy, but only in English. Learners of English at intermediate levels of proficiency exhibit transfer from the native language in comprehending metonymic shifts of meanings. Restructuring of the grammar is evident in later stages of development. Finally, complete success in acquiring L2 metonymic patterns is attested in our experimental study. Implications for L2A theories and teaching practices are discussed.

scholarly journals Deixis in the novel Murder on the orient express

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Atika Pertiwi ◽  
Cita Hikmah Yanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spatial Deixis ◽  
Agatha Christie ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study which entitled “Deixis in The Novel Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie” Deixis described the relationship between language and context and the objectives of this study were (1) to find out the utterances of a major character, M. Poirot, and types of the deixis in The Novel Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. (2) to describe the reference of each type of deixis in the Novel Murder on the Orient Express. This study applied the descriptive qualitative method. The result of this study showed that there were three types of deixis found in the utterances of a major character, M. Poirot in the novel Murder on the Orient Express, namely personal deixis (73 data), temporal deixis (18 data), and spatial deixis (9 data). The referent of the personal deixis found referred to all passenger in the Orient Express, temporal deixis refers to the time of utterance was uttered and the murder of Ratchett occurred, spatial deixis referred to the Orient Express itself.

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