Reporting Discourse, Tense and Cognition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Reporting discourse has attracted rigorous analyses in linguistics, literary theory, cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnomethodology. This book provides analyses of controversial topics in reporting discourse like tense alternation, reporting styles, patterns and functions. After critically examining existing theories, Tomoko I. Sakita offers new theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses within the scope of actual language performance. Her analysis covers tenses that previous studies have neglected or have considered "ungrammatical" or "mistaken". Based on models of cognitive recollection and stream of consciousness, tense reveals cognitive, attitudinal and consciousness state markers in complex reporting processes, as well as identity, speaker psychology, and deictic relations, embedded in discourse and narrative contexts. A synthesis of discourse analysis and experiments on reporting style, structure and functions leads to formulating a new reporting discourse continuum. Reporting discourses emerge as rule-governed, goal-directed, purposeful strategic devices in communication. Sakita shows reporting discourse to be an integral whole formed by speakers' constant interpretations and choices at different stages of information processing, with close interactions among cognitive constraints, discourse organization, contextual information, and communicative purposes. She deepens our insights into the operation of language and cognition, as well as into communication systems and social dynamics, ultimately leading to a better understanding of human behaviour. This should be a useful work not only for linguists and literary specialists but also for readers with serious interest in human reporting behaviour and narrative, or in the dynamic aspects of cognitive operation.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-08-15
Mått155 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt633 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagHarperCollins Publishers
ISBN9780080440415

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Summary of contrastsWeak vs. strong attitudeDegrees of assuredness in I don't knowDegrees of firmness in negation and affirmationDegrees of upset in exclamationSummary of contrastsConclusionConsciousness Flow, Discourse Acts, and TenseOverviewDiscourse organization unitsConsciousness flow in discourseConsciousness flow in narrative dialoguesConsciousness flow in exchangesAdjacency pairThree-part exchangeConsciousness flow over a series of remarksIn a single speaker's speechOver a series of remarksConsciousness flow in repetition of dialogue-introducersPre-posing double dialogue-introducersPost-posing dialogue-introducersAt restatementsConclusionTense in Indirect Reporting DiscourseOverviewTreatments of tense in grammarPragmatic viewDeclerck's hypothesisTense in discoursePrevalence of speaker's viewpointAvoidance of the past perfect tenseDiscourse functional use of the past perfect tenseReporting clause as dialogue markerConclusionReporting Discourse Style and FunctionOverviewGeneral characterizations of reporting discourse style and functionTheoretical backgroundsPragmatic studiesReporting style and structureOverviewPreliminary studyExperimental studyMethodData analysis proceduresResultsBackgrounds of structural influence on style choiceSummaryReporting function and pattern OverviewMethodReporting discourse functionsEvidentialityDisagreement and persuasionResponseForeground and background informationShowing climaxes or punch-linesExemplification and demonstration of emotionDramatizationDramatizing imaginary and future eventsDramatizing archetypical eventsSummaryCorrelations between style and functionReporting discourse on continuumStyle and function along a continuum.ConclusionConclusionSummary of chaptersTheoretical implicationsFuture perspectivesNotesTranscription ConventionsReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index.

An important work not only for linguists and literary specialists but also for readers with serious interest in human reporting behavior and narrative, or in the dynamic aspects of cognitive operation. Folia Linguistica, Vol XXXVIII/1-2 Chaoqun Xie ...impressive book...Well-researched and clearly presented, this book represents represents a step forward in our understanding of direct and indirect reporting discourse. Language 80(2), pp 355-356