Introduction : approaches to fictional dialogue
- This special issue is devoted to a cross-disciplinary investigation of a specific literary phenomenon, fictional dialogue. Fictional dialogue is used to refer to passages of character-character conversation within a literary text. More specifically, the articles of the issue deal with fictional dialogue as a narrative mode in prose fiction. The issue aims to engender an appreciation and a better understanding of the workings of dialogue by drawing on the insights and methods from both literary studies and linguistics. These methods include a rhetorical-ethical approach to narrative, cognitive and “natural” narratology, the study of everyday conversational storytelling, and Conversation Analysis (CA). Combining these methods helps us to understand that while dialogue is a central means to depict character-character relationships it also serves other levels of communication in a narrative and thus contributes to the reader's comprehension of the narrative design's rhetorical and ethical dimensions. The articles also suggest that while understanding dialogue depends partly on the reader’s experiences of real-life conversation, the interpretation of dialogue is determined by the overall design of a literary text and the historically changing conventions.
Author: | Elise Nykänen, Aino Koivisto |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484054 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v5i2.56 |
ISSN: | 2194-5594 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL |
Publisher: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
Place of publication: | Mainz, Germany |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Date of first Publication: | 2016/05/17 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/11/27 |
Tag: | Direct speech representation; autobiographical writing; constructed dialogue; conversational dialogue; fictional dialogue; fictionality; hypothetical speech; linguistic approaches to dialogue; rhetorical approaches to dialogue in narrative; unreliable narration |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2, Art. 1 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 14 |
Note: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
HeBIS-PPN: | 439973899 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | International journal of literary linguistics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-483647 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |