Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Dionysis Goutsos
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748620456
- eISBN:
- 9780748671397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748620456.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
While the two previous chapters focus on how units and relations contribute to text structure and what devices are employed in text organisation, this chapter moves to how structure is oriented ...
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While the two previous chapters focus on how units and relations contribute to text structure and what devices are employed in text organisation, this chapter moves to how structure is oriented towards certain functions. In narrative discourse, a central concern is the encoding of subjectivity. We discuss the main concepts that have been proposed for the analysis of the teller’s engagement with what is being reported: e.g. evaluation, tellability, involvement, performance. We also present the main devices that have been associated with each of these concepts. Non-narrative discourse, on the other hand, relies more on the employment of rhetorical patterns such as the Problem-Solution and other patterns, which are presented here, while evaluation in non-narrative texts crucially relates to modality and other functions such as status, value and relevance. In both discourse modes, functions relate to the texts’ overall generic structures.Less
While the two previous chapters focus on how units and relations contribute to text structure and what devices are employed in text organisation, this chapter moves to how structure is oriented towards certain functions. In narrative discourse, a central concern is the encoding of subjectivity. We discuss the main concepts that have been proposed for the analysis of the teller’s engagement with what is being reported: e.g. evaluation, tellability, involvement, performance. We also present the main devices that have been associated with each of these concepts. Non-narrative discourse, on the other hand, relies more on the employment of rhetorical patterns such as the Problem-Solution and other patterns, which are presented here, while evaluation in non-narrative texts crucially relates to modality and other functions such as status, value and relevance. In both discourse modes, functions relate to the texts’ overall generic structures.
Jane Hwang Degenhardt
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640843
- eISBN:
- 9780748651597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640843.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter discusses genre as an alternative to assessing the racial and gendered stakes of Christian-Muslim conversion. It studies what happens when a romance plot is forced into a tragicomic ...
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This chapter discusses genre as an alternative to assessing the racial and gendered stakes of Christian-Muslim conversion. It studies what happens when a romance plot is forced into a tragicomic structure and reveals the inability of the early modern stage to visualize Christian redemption for a female character after Islamic sexual contamination. The chapter also determines a slippage between embodiment and spirituality — or religious and racial identity — that is crucially mediated via the generic structures of plays.Less
This chapter discusses genre as an alternative to assessing the racial and gendered stakes of Christian-Muslim conversion. It studies what happens when a romance plot is forced into a tragicomic structure and reveals the inability of the early modern stage to visualize Christian redemption for a female character after Islamic sexual contamination. The chapter also determines a slippage between embodiment and spirituality — or religious and racial identity — that is crucially mediated via the generic structures of plays.
