Linguistic polyphony : the Scandinavian approach: ScaPoLine / by Henning Nølke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nølke, Henning, author.

Series:

Studies in pragmatics ; 16.

Studies in pragmatics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Scandinavia.

Linguistics.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

Linguistic polyphony is an utterance act theory (la linguistique de l'énonciation) and is a French specialty. It deals with the numerous points of view that are likely to be communicated through an utterance. The book introduces utterance act theory and polyphony as such, but most especially focuses on the Scandinavian variant of polyphony, ScaPoLine. ScaPoLine is a formal linguistic theory whose main purpose is to specify the instructions conveyed through linguistic form for the creation of polyphonic meaning. The theoretical introduction is followed by polyphonic analyses of linguistic phenomena such as negation, mood, modality and connectors, and of textual phenomena such as represented discourse and irony. The book suggests how ScaPoLine could offer new insights within cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary studies.

Contents:

1 Utterance Act Linguistics (UAL) 5

Introduction 5

1 Short History and General Characteristics 6

1.1 Origins 6

1.2 Émile Benveniste 6

2 UA Theories 7

2.1 The Theory of Utterance Act Operations (TOE) 8

2.2 Formal Utterance Act Theory (Jean-Pierre Desclés) 10

2.3 The Theory of Argumentation within Language (TAL) 12

2.4 The Utterance Act Theory of Focalisation (UATF) 15

2.5 Dialogism 17

2.6 Polyphony 18

3 Conceptual Background 19

3.1 Basic Concepts 19

3.2 Modular Linguistics 23

3.3 Meaning 27

3.4 What Kind of Semantics? 29

3.5 Interpretation Model 32

3.6 Ideal Discourse 33

4 Concluding Remarks 35

2 Polyphony 36

Introduction 36

1 Polyphonic Music 37

2 Literary Polyphony 37

3 Discourse Polyphony 38

4 Linguistic Polyphony 39

4.1 Historical Tree 40

4.2 The Trunk: OswaldDucrot (andJean-Claude Anscomhre) 40

4.3 The Argumentative Theory of Polyphony (TAP) 43

4.4 The Theory of Stereotypes 45

4.5 The Theory of Discourse Representation (TDR) 46

4.6 ScaPoLine 47

4.7 The Modal Theory of Polyphony (MTP) 47

5 Summary 48

3 ScaPoLine: The Scandinavian Theory of Polyphony 49

Introduction 49

1 Background 49

1.1 Brief History 50

1.2 Basic Insight 51

2 Methodological Considerations 53

2.1 Research Object 53

2.2 Polyphonic Structure and Polyphonic Configuration 54

2.3 Method of Analysis 55

2.4 Recapitulation 56

3 The Configuration 56

4 The LOC 58

4.1 Deixis 59

4.2 Speaker Comments 59

4.3 Speech Acts 59

4.4 The Mimed LOC 60

5 Discourse Entities (DE) 61

5.1 First Person 62

5.2 Second Person 65

5.3 Third Person 66

5.4 Comments on the Classification 70

6 Points of View (POVS) 71

6.1 The Source 72

6.2 Judgement/Content 72

6.3 Basic POVS 73

6.4 Special POVS 79

6.5 Comments on the Classification 81

7 Utterance Links (LINKS) 81

7.1 Types 81

7.2 The Recursion Problem 85

7.3 LINK vs Commitment 85

7.4 Comments on the Classification 87

8 Polyphonic Structure (p-structure) 88

8.1 Monophony 89

8.2 Internal Polyphony 90

8.3 External Polyphony 91

8.4 Mixed Polyphony 91

8.5 Citation 92

8.6 Recapitulation 92

9 Final Remarks 93

4 Linguistic Analyses 95

Introduction 95

1 The Negation ne ... pas 95

1.1 Pragmatic Meaning of Negation 95

1.2 Polyphonic Analysis 98

1.3 Triggers and Blockers 102

1.4 Conclusions 110

2 The Subjunctive Mood 111

3 Locutionary Modalities 114

3.1 Modal Sentence Aaverbiais 115

3.2 Peut-etre 116

3.3 Conclusion 121

4 Evidentially 121

4.1 II paratt que and il semble que 122

4.2 Reportive Conditional 128

5 'Announcers' 130

5.1 Certes and Commitment/Taking-into-Account 131

5.2 Announcers and LINKS 132

6 Elocutionary Modalities 134

7 Connectors 135

7.1 Inference Rules and the Connector done 136

7.2 Puisqne 137

7.3 Topoi and the Connector mais 139

8 Syntactic Structure: Clefts 140

9 Combinations of Polyphonic Markers 143

10 Constructed Acts 144

11 Conclusions 146

5 Text Analyses 148

Introduction 148

1 General Considerations 148

2 Extended ScaPoLine 149

2.1 First Step 150

2.2 Second Step 152

2.3 The Polyphonic Passage 155

2.4 Conclusions 156

3 Represented Discourse (RD) 157

3.1 General Characteristics of RD 157

3.2 The Four Prototypes 159

3.3 The Enunciative Functions 161

3.4 Enunciative Incorporation 163

3.5 Synoptic Table 165

3.6 Some Linguistic Characteristics of RD 166

3.7 The Syntactic Structure of BD 166

3.8 Expressions Conveying Shown Meaning (ECSM) 168

3.9 Deictic Expressions 172

3.10 Summary 175

4 Irony 175

5 Literary Text Analysis 181

5.1 Two Examples 182

5.2 Linguistic and Literary Polyphony 184

5.3 Can. Linguistic Polyphony Analysis Support Literary Analysis? 186

5.4 Can (Polyphonic) Literary Analysis Enrich Linguistic Analysis? 186

6 Conclusion 187

6 Linguistic Polyphony in a Broader Perspective 188

Introduction 188

1 A Modular Approach 188

3 Cross-Linguistic Studies 189

3 Polyphony and Cognition 190

4 Polyphony and Sociology 191

5 'Compound' Disciplines 192

6 Conclusion 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004341524

9004341528

OCLC:

974964939