The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse by Regine Eckardt
Free indirect discourse presents us with the inner world of protagonists of a story. We seem to see the world through their eyes, and listen to their inner thoughts. The present study analyses the logic of free indirect discourse and offers a framework to represent multiple ways in which words betray the speaker's feelings and attitude. The theory covers tense, aspect, temporal indexicals, modal particles, exclamatives and other expressive elements and their dependence on shifting utterance contexts. It traces the subtle ways in which story texts can offer information about protagonists.The study of free indirect discourse has been a topic of great interest in recent years in semantics and pragmatics. In this book, Regine Eckardt proposes a new theory of this domain and applies it to a wide variety of phenomena -- discourse particles, exclamatives, and mood -- in addition to the traditional indexical pronouns and tenses. She situates this project within a larger attempt to extend the tools of semantic analysis to fiction. Most formally oriented semanticists have not paid serious attention to this domain, which has resulted in a major gap in semantic theory; this book is thus a pioneering effort and raises many intriguing points. The total result is an empirically rich and exciting work which will be a profitable read for researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, and formal approaches to literature. Eric McCready, Aoyama Gakuin University
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Regine Eckardt Ph.D. (1996) University of Stuttgart, is Professor of semantics/pragmatics at the English department of Göttingen University. She has worked and published on the meaning of focus and information structure, discourse particles, as well as semantic change and grammaticalization.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004266728 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004266720 |
| Title | The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse |
| Author | Regine Eckardt |
| Series | Current Research In The Semantics Pragmatics Interface |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2014-11-28 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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