In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together
theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new
light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and
universal device for translating our experiences into language.
Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all
narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives
are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She
uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to
explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative
texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period,
whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed
those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of
tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of
functions-pragmatic as well as grammatical-that these two
categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic
economy of a narration.
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