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Tables of Contents for Narrative
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
viii
Acknowledgements
xi
Preliminary orientations
1
14
Teller, tale, addressee
1
3
Typical characteristics of narratives
4
4
Narratives and non-narratives
8
2
Story - text - narration
10
5
Further reading
12
1
Notes and exercises
13
2
Basic story structure
15
26
Story/fabula/histoire
15
2
Propp's morphology of the Russian fairytale
17
5
Barthes on narrative
22
7
Plot-summarizing: modelling intuitions
29
2
In search of the grammaticization of plot structure
31
10
Further reading
37
1
Notes and exercises
37
4
The articulation of narrative text I: time, focalization, narration
41
39
Narrative text: a single level of analysis
41
1
Text and time
42
12
Temporal refractions in text: Nabokov's Pnin
54
5
Focalization
59
4
Perceptual focalization as primary
63
1
Narrators and narration
64
4
Simpson's typology of narratorial modes
68
12
Further reading
77
1
Notes and exercises
77
3
The anticulation of narrative text II: character, setting, suspense, film
80
36
Character
80
2
Greimas' actant model
82
4
Character traits and attributes
86
2
Distinctive feature characterology
88
3
Setting
91
3
Character and setting in `The Dead'
94
5
Creating surprise and suspense in narratives
99
4
From prose to film: radical translation
103
4
The grammaticization of character and situation
107
9
Further reading
112
1
Notes and exercises
112
4
The articulation of narrative text III: representing character discourse
116
27
Achieving immediacy in the narration of thoughts
116
3
Modes of speech and thought presentation
119
6
Differences between Direct and Indirect Discourse
125
5
Different again: free Indirect Discourse
130
3
Who speaks, who thinks?
133
1
FID: functions and effects
134
9
Further reading
140
1
Notes and exercises
140
3
Narrative as socially situated: the sociolinguistic approach
143
35
Labov and narrative structure
143
2
Fixed narrative clauses, free evaluative clauses
145
4
Abstracts and orientations
149
2
Evaluation
151
2
Doing and saying
153
2
Internal evaluation
155
2
Coda
157
2
Stories in societies
159
1
Narrative performance
160
2
Dispersed, embedded, and group oral narratives
162
5
From Labov to literature
167
11
Further reading
172
1
Notes and exercises
173
5
Children's narratives
178
28
Stories for, by, and with children
178
2
Storytelling and emergent literacy
180
2
Differing styles, differing orientations
182
3
Children's narrative development
185
4
Children's narratives and the development of registers and genres: the systemic-linguistic approach
189
4
The systemic-linguistic account of sotry genres
193
4
Stories for and with children
197
9
Further reading
203
1
Notes and exercises
204
2
Narrative as political action
206
36
The contexts of narratives
206
1
Hard news stories in the newspaper
206
2
Political narratives in the news
208
4
The unfolding news story: a contemporary example
212
9
The linguistic apparatus of political construal: notes on key resources
221
9
News stories online
230
3
Stories of class and gender
233
1
Prejudice in ethnic narratives
234
1
Stories in court
235
7
Further reading
239
1
Notes and exercises
239
3
Bibliography
242
13
Index
255