Linguistic foundations of narration in spoken and sign languages / edited by Annika Hübl, Markus Steinbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hübl, Annika, editor.

Steinbach, Markus, editor.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell. 0166-0829 ; Volume 247.

Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistic today ; Volume 247

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for instance, (S)DRT, Centering Theory, Accessibility Theory, QUD, Generalized Conversational Implicatures, Super Monsters and Gesture Semantics and new empirical approaches in the framework of experimental semantics and pragmatics or corpus linguistic discourse analysis. The contributions to this collected volume build on these developments and investigate the linguistic foundations of narration from various perspectives. The contributions address topics such as speech and thought representation, free indirect speech, information structure, anaphora resolution, co-speech gestures, classifier constructions as well as on role shift and constructed action. The volume provides new insights in the linguistic structures underlying narration in written, spoken, and sign languages from an experimental, developmental, historical, typological, and theoretical perspective.

Contents:

Intro

Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Approaching narration across modalities: Topics, methods, perspectives

1. Introduction

2. Perspective

3. Contributions to this volume

References

A new technique for analyzing narrative prosodic effects in SLs using motion capture technology

1.1 Perceptual studies of prosody and fluency

1.2 Production studies of fluency and prosody

1.3 Prior kinematic work

2. The present study

2.1 Procedure

2.2 Analyses

2.3 Results

2.4 Summary

3. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Language structure and principles of information organization: An analysis of retellings in Japanese, German, and L2 Japanese

2. Grammaticised notions in Japanese

2.1 Markers of the point of view

2.2 Aspect system

3. Information organization in Japanese narratives in contrast to German narratives

3.1 The global temporal structure

3.2 The role of the global topic entity in information organization

3.3 Discussion

4. Information organization by German adult learners of Japanese

4.1 Data collection

4.2 Method

4.3 Results

4.4 Discussion

5. Final remarks

Texts as answers to questions: Information structure and its grammatical underpinnings in narratives and descriptions in German and English (topic and anaphoric linkage)

2. Texts as answers to questions

3. Language specificity in information organisation

3.1 Macro structural planning in narratives and object descriptions in English and German: the role of grammar

3.2 Descriptive passages in film re-narrations in English and German.

3.3 Temporal relations in film re-narrations in English and German

3.4 Object descriptions

4. Discussion and conclusions

Discourse prominence and the selection of anaphora - evidence from pronouns in historical German

1. The role of discourse prominence in the choice of anaphora - introductory remarks

2. Previous ways of determining salience in pronominal choice and resolution

3. Case studies

3.1 Data and method

3.2 Case study I: 3rd person pronouns vs. simple demonstratives in OHG

3.3 Case study II: her/ther/theser vs. (g)ener in OHG

4. Conclusion

Text editions

Secondary literature

A centering theoretic account for the changing usage of anaphoric expressions in the history of German

1.1 Aims of this paper

1.2 Centering theory

2. Anaphoric expressions in modern German from a centering perspective

3. Old High German - does centering play a role for the choice of anaphoric expressions?

4. Later periods

5. Conclusions

On the processing of free indirect discourse: First results and methodological challenges

2. Theoretical background

3. Experimental evidence

3.1 Materials

3.2 Pilot 1: Off-line questionnaire study

3.3 Pilot 2: Expert rating

3.4 Experiment 1: Self-paced reading

3.5 Experiment 2: Self-paced reading and memory test

4. General discussion

What is a Narration - and why does it matter?

1. The mystery of Narration

2. What is a Narration?

2.1 Micro-structural conceptions of Narration: The sequence of events

2.2 Macro-structural conceptions of Narration: The double-layered structure of discourse

3. The anatomy of the double-layered structure of Narration

3.1 The case of Free Indirect Discourse (FID).

3.2 The How and What of narrative discourse

3.3 Is there a narrator at all?

3.4 Who speaks?

3.5 Interim conclusion: The configuration of narrative discourse structure

4. Narration in oral story telling

5. What about fictionality?

6. Why it matters

Reporting vs. pretending. Degrees of identification in role play and reported speech

2.1 Two notions of perspective

2.2 Perspectives in role play

2.3 Perspectives in direct and indirect speech

3. Differences between role play utterances and speech reports

3.1 Metalinguistic marking

3.2 Communicative intention

3.3 Embodiment

4. Hierarchy of identification

Ways of expressing action in multimodal narrations - The semiotic complexity of character viewpoint depictions

2. Analyzing multimodal narratives

3. Exemplification of the method

Step 1. Description of articulators involved in the character viewpoint depiction

Step 2. Meaning analysis of body movements

Step 3. Determination of degree of semiotic complexity

4. Ways of expression action in multimodal narrations

4.1 Character viewpoint depiction involving a single articulator

4.2 Character viewpoint depiction involving two articulators

4.3 Character viewpoint depiction involving several articulators

5. Continuum of semiotic complexity

6. Concluding thoughts: Iconicity of action depiction and constructed action in gesture and sign language

Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives

2. Background

2.1 Dynamic semantics and salience

2.2 Previous work on reference-tracking in sign languages

2.3 A more complex account of salience.

3. Referring expressions in signed narratives

3.1 Semantic classifiers

3.2 Double function of classifiers

3.3 Coarticulation of role shift and semantic classifiers

4. Accessibility in signed anaphoric chains

4.1 Licensing the identity equation and associative anaphora

4.2 Accessibility and semantic relations

Between narrator and protagonist in fables of German sign language

2. Role shift in sign languages

2.1 Terminology

2.2 Quotation role shift

2.3 Action role shift

3. Parallel perspectivation within action role shift in fables of German sign language

3.1 State of the art

3.2 Methodology and data

3.3 Types of parallel perspectivation

3.4 Simultaneously layered additions by the narrator within action role shift

4. A unified account for role shift

4.1 Action role shift at the gesture-grammar interface

4.2 Integrating A-RS in an agreement analysis

5. Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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