Form-function relations in narrative development : how Anna became a writer / E. Birgitta Svensson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svensson, E. Birgitta, author.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; Volume 24.

Studies in Narrative, 1568-2706 ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Written communication.

Literacy.

Multicultural education.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [the Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional linguistics, and writing pedagogy theory. This book extends previous studies on narrative writing development since it provides a multifaceted window into the progression of narrative development, from elementary school through secondary school and university to life as a professional journalist and writer. It also shows how narrative writing development is related to the cognitive, emotional/psychological and social development of the individual.

Contents:

Intro

Form-function Relations in Narrative Development

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Purpose of the study

The organization of the book

Chapter 2. Theoretical framework

Previous research on narrative and writing development

Narrative development

Form and function development

Packaging

Development of form-function relations: assumptions and predictions

Narrative ability and development

The preverbal message and the event view

Horizontal and vertical narrative axis

Developmental path

Genre competence and narrative structure

Genre competence

A narrative structure model

Episodes, events, scenes and character activity

Categorization of narrative patterns in a continuum

Writing models

Systemic functional linguistics and written language patterns

Register theory and context

The ideational level

Noun phrases

Lexical density and grammatical intricacy

Logical relations and clauses

The appraisal system

Textual level

Lexical relations

Lexical and grammatical metaphors

From congruent to incongruent language use

Narrative writing and identity

Terminology

Conclusion

Chapter 3. The present study

The texts

Anna

Ethical principles

Reading position and text analysis

Translation from Swedish into English

Chapter 4. Pictorial texts

Narrative structure, ideational level and appraisal

Simple event description

Narrative structure

Ideational level and appraisal

The drawings

Frame story

Expanded event description

Drawings

Form and function

Syntactic structure

Quantitative findings.

Qualitative findings

Information flow

Relative clauses

Prepositional phrases

Verbs

Temporality

Tense

Temporal anchorage

Conclusion and comparison

Chapter 5. Exploration and mimicry

Expanded story

Ideational level and Appraisal

Chronological stories

A recount

A chapter book

Narrative hybrid 1

Complex stories 1

Narrative hybrid 2

A horror story

Narrative hybrid 3

Short prose with dialogue

Syntactic construction

Quantitative findings

Qualitative findings

Syntactic packaging

Shortened clauses and omissions of subjects and verbs

Coordination of noun and verb phrases

Introductory it

Temporality and part-whole relations

Chapter 6. Enacting social relations

Expanded short prose with dialogue

Narrative structure and the construction of scenes

The narrative texts as communicative links

Complex stories 2

A third-person narrative

A personal account

Shortened clauses, omissions of subjects and verbs

Verbs, space and character perception

Landscapes of action and consciousness, the reader.

Thinking before speaking and thinking before writing

Chapter 7. Shaping of a voice

Complex stories 3 and 4

A first-person autobiographical narrative

A first-person fictional narrative

A literary biography

The information flow

Shortened clauses

Coordination, linking with null subject and gapping

Motion verbs and the construction of spatial situations

Towards a more complex temporal anchorage

Chapter 8. Increased fictionality and context sensitivity

Narrative structure, ideational level, and appraisal

A short story - using language towards aesthetic ends

Ideational level and literary style

Appraisal

A reflective anecdote: writing in a digitalized world

Transitivity pattern, lexis and visual-spatial representations

Shortened clauses, omissions of subject and verb

Coordination of nouns, verbs and adverbs

The construction of spatial situations

Temporality and the shaping of co-presence

Transfer from English

Chapter 9. Towards narrative competence

From beginning to advanced level

Phases and features in a continuum.

Pictorial texts

Exploration and mimicry of genres

Enacting social relations

Shaping a voice

Increased fictionality and context sensitivity

Linguistic form and narrative function relations development

Connectivity

Expression of simultaneity

Expression of retrospection

Conflation

Accessible forms

Paragraphing

Patterns of stability and change, variability

The multidimensional variables effecting narrative writing development

A summary, using an SFL-terminology

Anna and narrative writing

Reading and writing fiction

Theoretical and pedagogical implications of the study

Directions for future research

Appendix 1. Examples of lexical strings

Tale of the princess, year 2

Love in the jungle, year 4

Guilt, year 7

The dreamhouse, year 10

When a smile goes to sleep, Creative writing course

Appendix 2

Interview questions 1 (IA1)

Interview questions 2 (IA2)

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.