When Voices Clash

by Mey, Jacob L.

• ISBN13: 9783110158212
• ISBN10: 3110158213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction
Literary pragmatics: Why and what?	3	(12)
`I wanted those ships'	3	(3)
The context as a problem	6	(3)
`Don't drive like my brother (or my sister)'	9	(3)
Literary pragmatics: A definition	12	(3)
Part One: The sentence
The state of the question	15	(26)
What is the question?	15	(3)
Banfield's `unspeakable sentences'	18	(2)
Ehrlich: Sentence and narrator	20	(5)
Fludernik: A synthesis?	25	(3)
`Lector in fabula'	28	(13)
The web of reading	29	(5)
Context and cotext	34	(3)
Contextual coercion: `Setting up' the reader	37	(4)
The language question	41	(48)
Reference and deixis	41	(8)
Reference	41	(2)
Deixis	43	(2)
Personal pronouns	45	(4)
Anaphora	49	(5)
Tense and point of view	54	(35)
`Anchored' vs. `non-anchored' time	54	(4)
Time, tense, and perspective	58	(1)
`Viewing time'	59	(7)
True preterits	66	(2)
Tense shift reconsidered	68	(1)
The sequence of tenses	69	(3)
`Backshifting' and free indirect discourse	72	(10)
Other languages, other ways	82	(7)
Part Two: Voice
Speakability and voice	89	(23)
What is `speakability'?	89	(3)
Speakable and unspeakable sentences	92	(11)
Sentence and utterance	92	(3)
To be or not to be ... a linguist? Banfield's dilemma	95	(1)
Cart and horse: Ehrlich's impasse	96	(3)
A linguistic voice? Fludernik's problem	99	(4)
FID and grammer	103	(9)
The saving grace of rules: `Grammaire et Riffaterre'	103	(5)
Speakability, subject, and voice	108	(1)
Dual voice	108	(4)
Voice and voice management	112	(33)
Vocality and voice	112	(1)
Voice management	112	(9)
How are voices managed?	121	(5)
The `optics' of FID	126	(17)
Voice management and vocality	127	(1)
Narrator's deceit	128	(4)
`Voicing' and speakability	132	(4)
The object of description	136	(7)
Speakability and readability	143	(2)
Voice in focus	145	(27)
Perspective and voice	145	(8)
Focalization and localization	145	(3)
Focality and vocality	148	(5)
Multivocality	153	(19)
Language, meaning, and truth	154	(3)
Orchestration and dialogizing	157	(4)
Problems of person: `I', `eye', and skaz	161	(11)
Voice in transition	172	(61)
When voices change	172	(17)
`Whose voice ...?'	172	(3)
Announcing a voice shift	175	(5)
`Changing voices in mid-stream'	180	(6)
A smooth transition?	186	(3)
When voices clash	189	(35)
Voice trashing: `What are you doing to my character?'	190	(1)
A time warp	190	(8)
A trashy view	198	(4)
Voice mashing: `Who's that character speaking?'	202	(9)
Voice crashing: `What's that character doing in my story?'	211	(1)
The apostrophizing author	211	(6)
Authors' untimely antics	217	(7)
Unvoicing	224	(9)
Part Three: Perspectives
The dialogic perspective	233	(29)
Understanding as dialogue	233	(3)
Ownership and responsibility	236	(3)
From dialogue to discourse: Cooperation and constraint	239	(2)
Does the reader have a voice?	241	(21)
`Tell me a story'	241	(2)
Implied authors and readers	243	(4)
A dialogue with death	247	(2)
The not (yet) said	249	(3)
The elusions of allusions	252	(4)
Person and voice	256	(6)
The reader perspective	262	(19)
Reader and text	262	(6)
Reading across space and time	262	(5)
The reader: Competent or versatile?	267	(1)
The implied reader revisited	268	(13)
Text work	268	(2)
Communication and alienation	270	(2)
The subversive reader	272	(2)
Reader awareness	274	(7)
The pragmatic perspective	281	(36)
The power of words: A pragmatic affair	282	(6)
The `superaddressee'	283	(3)
A `third' voice	286	(2)
Reported speech: Reality or fiction?	288	(3)
Voice power	291	(9)
`Your speech betrays you'	291	(4)
The narrative context	295	(2)
Changing contexts, changing users	297	(3)
The pragmatic turn	300	(17)
Words and things	300	(2)
Acts in context	302	(3)
The pragmatics of reading	305	(1)
Coherence and understanding	305	(3)
Reading as a pragmatic act	308	(9)
Part Four: The text
The voice of the text	317	(33)
The pragmatics of the letter	317	(11)
The tyranny of letters	319	(3)
On writing letters	322	(4)
The spirit of the other	326	(2)
The dialectics of voicing	328	(10)
Authorship and textual control	329	(1)
`Pre-set' discourse	330	(4)
The `Uncle Charles principle'	334	(4)
Hegemony and autonomy: A responsible voice	338	(12)
The speakable text	350	(37)
Dialogue, text, and sex	350	(4)
Linguistics and metalinguistics	354	(5)
Dialogue and dialectics	359	(28)
Contact and context	359	(2)
Reflection and `anchoring'	361	(4)
The dialectic text	365	(1)
A `new' voice	366	(3)
Reconsidering speakability	369	(2)
Power and distance	371	(7)
Conclusion: Text, voice, and society	378	(9)
Notes	387	(22)
Primary literature	409	(6)
References	415	(12)
Name index	427	(6)
Subject index	433