Constructing dialogues, (re)constructing the past : "remembered" conversations in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s ashes
- This article explores the uses and functions of dialogue in Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes. Taking conversational dialogue and fictional dialogue as points of comparison, the article argues that dialogue in autobiographical writing is essentially constructed, albeit not in the same way as fictional dialogue is. Dialogue as a means of dramatisation raises questions regarding factuality and fictionality. In McCourt’s memoir, dialogue is shown to serve numerous functions: characterisation and stereotyping; selfpositioning and indirect stance-marking; the creation of verisimilitude, humour and reader involvement.
| Author: | Jarmila Mildorf |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484074 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v5i2.58 |
| ISSN: | 2194-5594 |
| Parent Title (English): | International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL |
| Publisher: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| Place of publication: | Mainz, Germany |
| Contributor(s): | Aino Koivisto, Elise Nykänen |
| 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: | autobiographical writing; constructed dialogue; conversational dialogue; fictional dialogue; fictionality |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 2, Art. 3 |
| Page Number: | 25 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 25 |
| Note: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 439974283 |
| 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 |
