15 Maggio 2018, domande+risposte PDF

Title	15 Maggio 2018, domande+risposte
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Institution	Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
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Deictic Shift Theory

The reader is plunged into the narrative and has to relinquish his/her status as deictic centre. Kinds of deictic shifts: – – – –

spatial temporal conceptual discursive

Narration

– Homodiegetic/heterodiegetic narrator (Genette 1972) – Category A/Category B (Simpson 1993) Other definitions: – Reflector (Simpson; Henry James' “Central Intelligence”)

Modes of Speech and Thought Presentation With greater or lesser degrees of involvement on the narrator's part: – Narrator's Summary of Speech/Thought Act – (Free) Indirect Speech/Thought – (Free) Direct Speech/Thought Also: Infected Narrative

Narrative Structure

Labov 1972 1. Abstract 2. Orientation 3. Complicating Action 4. Result/Resolution 5. Evaluation 6. Coda Orientation and Evaluation are particularly important in fiction

Irony

Definitions of irony: – Rhetorical (saying one thing / meaning another / the opposite) – Pragmatic (Grice 1967: a breach in the maxim of quality) – Echoic (Sperber and Wilson 1981: irony as echoic mention) – Perspectival (Morini 2010: irony seen in terms of Point of view)...