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9783110179958

How to Show Things With Words

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    9783110179958

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    3110179954

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-04-01
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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This book straddles the border between linguistics and philosophy to address, on a sound interdisciplinary basis, the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption. In languages with no grammaticalized evidential systems, the epistemological structure of discourse underlying perspectival oppositions is heavily dependent on the self-expression of language-using personae and must thereby be inferred from a well-defined set of surface markers. For that matter, the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, supported by the cognitive processes inherent in eventuality-description types.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
List of figures
xv
List of tables
xix
Abbreviations xxi
Introduction 1(14)
Part 1: Prolegomena
The linguistic structure of narrative transmission
15(40)
Introduction
15(1)
The showing--telling distinction
16(8)
Quantitative indicators of scene and summary
16(3)
Markedness in narrative pace: The dramatic mode
19(5)
Narrative transmission as cognitive distance: From evidential modalities to indication signs
24(21)
The problem of mimesis
24(1)
The linguistic coding of epistemology
25(9)
Evidential retrieval and perception verb complements (PVCs)
34(6)
Evidentials as indexicals: The origins of showing
40(5)
The role of tense, aspect and `Aktionsart'
45(6)
Tense and evidential skewing
45(2)
Episodic and generic sentences
47(2)
±STAT eventuality descriptions
49(2)
Concluding remarks
51(4)
Linguistics in narratology: A critical historical survey
55(52)
Introduction
55(3)
Ingarden, Stanzel, Hamburger: The neutralization of the `episches Prateritum' as a past-tense form
58(8)
Muller: Quantitative indicators and beyond
66(3)
Weinrich's textlinguistic theory: A tense-centered approach to backgrounded narrative discourse
69(9)
Uspensky: Synchronic and retrospective viewpoints as a function of tense and aspect oppositions
78(6)
Barthes: The semiotics of `L' effet de reel'
84(5)
Chatman and Prince: `Aktionsart' revisited
89(4)
Caenepeel: Perspectivally situated vs. perspectivally non-situated sentences
93(8)
Chafe: Displacement and immediacy in conversational language vs. displaced immediacy in narrative fiction
101(4)
Concluding remarks
105(2)
The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity
107(50)
Introduction
107(2)
Speech-act theory and narrative discourse
109(8)
Sentence types as carriers of illocutionary force
109(3)
The form--meaning relationship problem
112(1)
The abstract performative analysis
112(2)
Illocutionary-force coding operators
114(1)
Statement-making sentences as a necessary but not sufficient condition for mimetic narrative discourse
115(2)
The philosophical research on linguistic functions
117(16)
Setting the stage
117(1)
Anton Marty: Intimation and arousal; meaning as function or illocutionary point vs. meaning as propositional content
118(4)
Indicative signs in Husserl's ideational theory of meaning
122(1)
Indication vs. expression
122(2)
Intimation of non-extensional expressions and intimation of non-linguistic acts proper
124(6)
Buhler's organon model of language
130(2)
Jakobson's extended functional model
132(1)
The phenomenological make-up of the narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity
133(13)
The intentional stance
133(3)
The concept of objectivating act
136(1)
Signitive vs. intuitive objectivating acts
137(7)
Doing away with non-objectivating acts
144(2)
Locutionary subjectivity as a function of tense, aspect and `Aktionsart'
146(4)
Summary and conclusion
150(7)
Part 2: The temporal--perspectival organization of discourse
Tense
157(54)
Introduction
157(1)
Reichenbach's theory of tense
158(15)
Tenses as ordered triples of time-points
158(4)
The ambivalence of Reichenbach's reference point
162(1)
The `erratic fate' of a seminal concept
162(1)
Reference time and temporal anaphora
163(6)
Reference point and temporal perspective
169(4)
Tense in narrative discourse
173(29)
The choice of a formal system
173(2)
Hybrid improved tense-logic (HITL)
175(3)
Simple past tensed discourse
178(3)
Sequences of simple past and past perfect sentences
181(3)
Discourse Representation Theory (DRT)
184(4)
The simple present and the present perfect
188(4)
Present and past tense systems: A comparative analysis
192(3)
Si nemo a me quaeret, scio, si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio
195(7)
Tense, perception and memory
202(7)
Concluding remarks
209(2)
Aspect
211(46)
Introduction
211(2)
Classificatory systems of aspectual oppositions
213(12)
Perfective vs. imperfective aspect
213(3)
Phase and habitual aspects as separate categories
216(4)
Internal vs. external aspect forms
220(4)
A tentative aspectual reclassification
224(1)
Viewpoint aspect and point of view: A first view on the role played by imperfective meaning
225(20)
IMP: An aspectually sensitive tense
225(1)
Tpt-based approaches to internal perspective
226(4)
TPpt-based approaches to internal perspective
230(3)
PROG: A state-forming aspectual operator
233(1)
Synchronic and diachronic linguistic evidence
234(2)
PROG = +STAT modulo the subinterval condition
236(3)
The phenomenology of state perception
239(6)
Imperfectivity as a two-edged aspectual form or another view on viewpoint aspect and point of view
245(8)
The plural form of imperfective sentences
245(4)
The habitual reading of the French IMP
249(4)
A note on iterativity
253(2)
Concluding remarks
255(2)
Aktionsart
257(38)
Introduction
257(1)
Vendler's aspectual classes
258(12)
Syntactic tests and entailment relations
258(5)
A brief informal characterization
263(3)
Aspectual multivalence: Telic and atelic coercion
266(4)
Formal semantic approaches to `Aktionsart'
270(24)
Dowty's aspect calculus
270(4)
Beyond aspectual feature algebras
274(3)
Multi-indexed modal analysis of gradual becoming
277(8)
Lattice-theoretic event semantics
285(4)
Two-dimensional dynamic temporal logic
289(5)
Concluding remarks
294(1)
The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission
295(90)
Introduction
295(2)
STAT eventuality descriptions
297(53)
Protracted and non-protracted situations
297(2)
Achievements
299(1)
Accomplishments
300(15)
Activities
315(10)
The phenomenology of event perception
325(1)
Motion proper vs. simple displacement
325(7)
From survey-knowledge to route-knowledge
332(1)
The bird's-eye perspective
332(5)
The field-perspective
337(7)
Nonmotional changes of state
344(6)
+STAT eventuality descriptions
350(25)
Stage-level predicates
350(10)
Individual-level predicates
360(9)
Thetic and categorical judgements
369(6)
World-knowledge based event semantics
375(8)
The `specious' present hypothesis
375(1)
Revisiting the phenomenology of event perception
376(1)
Achievements
376(3)
Accomplishments
379(4)
Activities
383(1)
Concluding remarks
383(2)
Conclusion 385(16)
Appendix 1 401(10)
Appendix 2 411(4)
Notes 415(68)
References 483(36)
Index of names 519(8)
Index of subjects 527

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