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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.

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Author:Elise Nykänen, Aino Koivisto
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):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0