Fictional dialogue and the construction of interaction in Rosa Liksom’s Short stories
- This article analyzes the dynamics of fictional dialogue in three short stories by the Finnish author Rosa Liksom. These stories are constructed almost entirely of dialogue, with minimal involvement on the part of the narrator. We adopt two different approaches to dialogue. First, we analyze dialogue from a micro level, as interaction between the characters within the storyworlds, then from a more holistic perspective, paying attention to how dialogue contributes to the rhetorical structure and ethical interpretation of the stories. We show that resorting mainly to dialogue as a narrative mode works as a way of depicting tensions between Liksom’s characters, and between them and the surrounding fictional world. This, in turn, engages the reader in an interpretative process to understand the story’s logic both within the fictional worlds and on the level of communication between the implied author and the authorial audience.
Author: | Elise Nykänen, Aino Koivisto |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484081 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v5i2.60 |
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: | Fictional dialogue; direct speech representation; linguistic approaches to dialogue; rhetorical approaches to dialogue in narrative |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2, Art. 4 |
Page Number: | 30 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 30 |
Note: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
HeBIS-PPN: | 439974429 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
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 |