History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely
heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes …

Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gärard Genette as? one
of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel.? Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative …

Verbal narrative, it has long been assumed, is especially qualified to represent speech
events because in this case, unlike any other, the ob ject and the medium of representation …

Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots
and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally …

This paper explores the pervasiveness of features of orality in the language of performed
fiction. Features of orality are typical of spontaneous spoken conversations where they are …

This chapter describes Conversation analysis (CA) and the cooperative principle (CP), and
illustrates how they can be applied for the analysis of spoken interaction in literary texts …

In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that
are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all …

Building on recent studies of speech and thought representation in narrative fiction
(Fludernik 1993; Herman 2002; Palmer 2004; Thomas 2002), this essay outlines the …

In fiction, fictional dialogues are created with the purpose of character building, plot
development, and reader appeal (Locher and Jucker 2021). To achieve these purposes, the …

Cognitive Poetics 2002 may turn out to be the year in which cognitive poetics/stylistics/
rhetoric established its hegemony or at least critical mass as regards the study of language …