Speech And Thought Presentation In French
Subtitle: Concepts And Strategies (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published: October 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781588116222
Subjects: French; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Discourse analysis; French language; Rhetoric; Language
Description: "This book analyses and describes Speech and Thought Presentation (S & TP) in French from a broad theoretical perspective, building bridges between linguistic, stylistic and narratological frameworks that have until now been developed separately. It combines the French theorie de l'enonciation and different Anglo-Saxon approaches of reported discourse into a harmonious whole, in order to create a new and exciting paradigm for our conception of S & TP strategies.

Basing its findings on actual corpora and going beyond the canonical categories of reported discourse, it shows that the study of S & TP strategies is essential to our understanding of phenomena as diverse as the evolution and categorization of literary genres, the production and staging of 'orality' in literature, the various conceptualizations of the notion of 'Truth' in fiction and non-fiction, the expression of points of view in narrative, the structuring of rhetorical strategies and the construction of the 'Self' versus the representation of the 'Other' in discourse."--Jacket.