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This article is based on the assumption that lyric poems generally share the fundamental constituents of story and discourse as well as the narrative act with narrative fiction in that they likewise feature a sequence of incidents (usually of a mental kind), mediate and shape it from a specific perspective and present it from a particular point of time vis-à-vis the sequence of incidents. A general outline of the narratological categories which may be applied to poetry analysis is given using William Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud” as an illustrative example. The aim of the article is heuristic: the intention is not to blur the distinction between fiction and poetry and treat poems indiscriminately as narrative texts, but rather identify and highlight the specifically poetic forms and functions which instances of narrating adopt in poems. The main section of the article will then focus on the first of the three aspects mentioned, the modelling of poetic sequentiality, i.e. the specification of types of plot, plotting and presentation of plot in poetry and the analysis of their functions.

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NARRATIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A FOREIGNER’S STORY DURING HIS WORK IN INDONESIA

Lingua Cultura ◽

10.21512/lc.v4i1.349 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Melania Wiannastiti

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Moral Judgment ◽

Social Judgment ◽

Narrative Discourse ◽

The Internet ◽

Internet Chat ◽

Narrative Story ◽

Personal Feeling ◽

Story And Discourse

This article is concerned with the study of appraisal of a foreigner who worked in Indonesia.The aim is to find out some personal feeling of working in Indonesia. An Australian who worked inIndonesia during some period of time was the main respondent. There are three episodes ofconversation through the internet chat, namely Yahoo Messenger between the writer and therespondent. The conversation transcript was used as the data. Narrative story and discourse analysiswere used as a perspective approach to analyze the story. The important themes discussed in the studyare affect, appreciation, personal and moral judgment, and social judgment.

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Narrative as a term in narratology and music theory

Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje ◽

10.31724/rihjj.44.2.16 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 567-579

Author(s):

Smiljana Narančić Kovač ◽

Iva Kovač

Keyword(s):

General Theory ◽

Music Theory ◽

Musical Narrative ◽

Musical Discourse ◽

Story And Discourse

The paper compares the term narrative as it is used by narratologists, and as it is used by music scholars, to establish whether these two disciplines use the term in the same way, or as two homonyms. Narratological studies in medium-specific models of narratives apply the term to different kinds of discourses, i.e. different media. Music theoreticians and musicologists consider its application in music scholarship with a theory of the musical narrative in view. This analysis shows that in the general theory of the narrative the concept includes both story and discourse, based on the referentiality of the discourse, which necessarily evokes a storyworld. Narratologists generally find music to be incapable of producing a narrative in this sense. Musicologists and theoreticians of music generally acknowledge the limitations of the referentiality of musical discourse, yet they often discover specific, usually abstract, narrative meanings there. Therefore, despite common starting points and principles, the two disciplines use the term narrative to denote two different concepts, which results in two homonymous terms.

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Alas, Poor Ghost! Traditions of Belief in Story and Discourse

Western Folklore ◽

10.2307/1500470 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 69

Author(s):

Jacqueline L. McGrath ◽

Gillian Bennett

Keyword(s):

Story And Discourse

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Reference and Preference in Narrative: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

Empirical Studies of the Arts ◽

10.2190/6p86-wve2-3y3v-p06l ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 33-43

Author(s):

Michel Grimaud

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Short Story ◽

Proper Names ◽

Cultural Influences ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Original Version ◽

Text Coherence ◽

Specific Description ◽

Proper Name ◽

Story And Discourse

In story and discourse proper names may be seen as one of five basic choices confronting the text producer: proper name (given name, surname); specific description (the tall one); classifier (the woman); pronoun (they); and zero anaphora. In Grimaud [1, 2], I studied cross-cultural (Hungarian and American) strategies in the use of those categories; in the present article, I look at some of the psychological implications of the various possible category choices by having twenty-five students comment on their preferences for one of the three versions of Sherwood Anderson's short story “The Strength of God” (in Winesburg, Ohio, 1919); a proper name only, a description only, and the mixed original version. Two influences dominated: a “friendliness” factor of proper names or descriptions (depending upon subject) and expectations concerning text coherence. Seven narrative maxims are postulated to account for the socio-cultural influences on preference for names in narrative.

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