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World Building in Spanish and English Spoken Narratives (Paperback)
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World Building in Spanish and English Spoken Narratives (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Stylistics
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Text World Theory is a powerful framework for discourse analysis
that, thus far, has only been used in monolingual Anglophone
stylistic analyses. This work adapts Text World Theory for the
analysis of Spanish discourse, and in doing so suggests some
improvements to the way in which it deals with discourse - in
particular, with direct speech and conditional expressions.
Furthermore, it applies Text World Theory in a novel way, searching
not for style in language, but for the style of a language.
Focusing principally on deixis and modality, the author examines
whether Spanish speakers and English speakers construct the
narrative text-world in any patterned ways. To do so, the 'frog
story' methodology is employed, eliciting spoken narratives from
native adult speakers of both languages by means of a children's
picture book. These narratives are transcribed and subjected to a
qualitative text-world analysis, which is supported with a
quantitative corpus analysis. The results reveal contrasts in
Spanish and English speakers' use of modality and deixis in
building the same narrative text-world, and are relevant to
scholars working in language typology, cross-cultural pragmatics
and translation studies. These novel applications of the Text World
Theory push the boundaries of stylistics in new directions,
broadening the focus from monolingual texts to languages at large.
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