Alltägliches erzählen und alltägliches Erzählen

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gülich
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Formal Techniques

AbstractStorytelling occurs in everyday conversation as much as in literary texts, where the commonplace is often a topic. This article focuses on both aspects: the ordinary as context and as subject matter of narratives. Generally, narrative research practices a division of labor: everyday narratives belong in the field of linguistics. Here, an example is provided for the analysis of an oral story within the scope of linguistic research that focuses on aspects of narratability and orientation. Literary narratives are treated within the framework of literary studies; the stories, however, are many times the object of textual linguistic research, out of which a few aspects will be sketched here. By way of example, a narrative from Franz Hohler that uses the everyday as its subject matter is analysed linguistically. In addition, the aspects of narratability and orientation are taken from research in conversation and linked to the textual analysis with the concept of textuality from text linguistics. On the basis of various criteria of textuality, this article shows how the commonplace becomes narratable through certain formal techniques in Hohler's texts. The essay advocates a stronger cooperation between linguistics and literary studies in narrative research.

Textualitätsannahmen und die Analyse literarischer Texte

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Winko
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Linguistic Model

AbstractThis article analyses genre-specific methods of textual analysis that are considered to be elementary and ‘close’ to the surface level of literary texts. It focuses on two questions: How do these methods explicitly and implicitly make use of the concept of textuality? And what kind of knowledge do they presuppose? A linguistic model of textuality is taken as the frame of this analysis. The article argues for the utilization of linguistic concepts in literary studies, both in theory and practice. At the same time it is assumed that historical and genre-oriented studies of literary texts focussing on the prerequisites of textuality will contribute to a differentiated view of a prototypical concept of textuality.

Literary Stylistics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Toolan
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
And Linguistics

Literary stylistics is a practice of analyzing the language of literature using linguistic concepts and categories, with the goal of explaining how literary meanings are created by specific language choices and patterning, the linguistic foregrounding, in the text. While stylistics has periodically claimed to be objective, replicable, inspectable, falsifiable and rigorous, and thus quasi-scientific, subjective interpretation is an ineradicable element of such textual analysis. Nevertheless, the best stylistic analyses, which productively demonstrate direct relations between prominent linguistic forms and patterns in a text and the meanings or effects readers experience, are explicit in their procedures and argumentation, systematic, and testable by independent researchers. Stylistics is an interdiscipline situated between literary studies and linguistics, and from time to time has been shunned by both, who for decades predicted its decline if not disappearance. The opposite has happened; stylistics is flourishing, and some of its proponents argue that it offers more authentic and relevant literary studies than much of what goes on in university literature departments. Equally, some stylisticians see their work as a more coherent linguistics, adapted to a particular purpose, than much of the abstract linguistics pursued by academic linguists. In recent years, stylistics has been reanimated by adoption and adaptation of ideas sourced in cognitive linguistics and by the increasingly easy creation of huge corpora of languages in digital, machine-searchable form; these two developments have given rise to various forms of cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics. In the early decades of the 21st century, one of the most exciting strands of work in stylistics is exploring kinds of iconicity in literary texts: passages of language that can be seen to enact or perform the effects or meanings the text is intent on conveying.

scholarly journals The linguistic personality of Dmitry Yavornitsky in the aspect of psycholinguistics

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
National Character ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The article is dedicated to actual problems of the linguistic personality in modern linguistics. It reveals the scientific content of the notion of linguistic personality as an object of linguistic research, which includes mental, social, ethnic, and other components of the discourse. The object of the research is the linguistic personality of Dmytro Yavornytsky – an outstanding scientist, social and cultural activist, writer, historian, folklorist, and lexicographer. The article explores language means, which determine the artistic individuality of D. Yavornytsky. Author’s worldview and values found their expression in the language of his works. The analysis of literary texts revealed that D. Yavornytsky aestheticized the folk spoken element. The writer widely uses everyday vocabulary, designating the realia of folk life, which alongside with the stylistically marked vocabulary of various degree of expressiveness displays the linguistic colouring of the epoch. In addition, the colloquial vocabulary is used as an expressive element. The work features the analysis of phraseological units of D. Yavornytsky’s literary texts – both traditional and modified by author. In is noted that the choice of phraseological units is determined by the subject matter of the creation. D. Yavornytsky was the adherent of ethnography, which is the reason for prevailing of fixed phrases from the colloquial language in his works. The national character of D. Yavornytsky’s works is reflected in the means of folk songs – an expressive feature of writer’s idiostyle. Proverbs, sayings, ubiquitous epithets, metaphors, similes, and other stylistic figures are means of stylization of folk-poetic narration. One of the brightest figurative units of D. Yavornytsky’s idiostyle, which is inseparably connected with ideological and thematic focus, is simile. The article features the research of individual constants of the worldview, values of the writer, and means of their linguistic expression. The most semantically and aesthetically significant words of his linguistic picture of the world are Cossack, steppe, song, Dnipro, Ukraine, Khortytsya, Baida, soul, heart.

„Raps“

POETICA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 282-313
Author(s):  
Robert Stockhammer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Cultivated Plant ◽  
Materiality Of Language

Abstract The recent controversy about the possibility of defining a new geological era called ‘Anthropocene’ has far-ranging consequences. The new notion forces us to rethink the dichotomy between the entities formerly referred to as men and nature and to conceive of their relation as an interrelation. The relevance of these considerations for literary studies is not limited to the anthropocene as a subject matter of literature, or to the possible use of literature as a means of enhancing the reader’s awareness of climate change. Rather, what is at stake is the relation of language to the new interrelation between man and nature, including the poetical and metalinguistic functions that emphasize the materiality of language. The present article explores the relation between the materiality of language and the materiality of things by way of a close reading of a single poem written by Marcel Beyer. Devoted to the cultivated plant rape, the literary traditions which this poem invokes reach beyond nature lyrics into georgic. An excursus recalls this genre of agriculture poetry and distinguishes it from pastoral, especially with regard to its use of language.

Toward an Islamic Framework for Worldview Studies

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-43
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Berghout
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Inductive Approach ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The paper examines the importance of designing a framework for studying worldviews within the parameters of contemporary Islamic thought. It briefly reviews both selected western and Islamic stances on worldview studies. The literature reveals that research on this topic and its application to different spheres has become a topic of some interest to many intellectual circles, particularly in the western context. Hence, the possibility of forming an Islamic civilizational framework for an inquiry into people’s worldviews needs to be assessed. This article follows a textual analysis and inductive approach to analyze the prospects of formulating an Islamic framework for research on worldviews and its applications. It concludes that western scholars have made considerable efforts in treating people’s worldviews as a field of study, while Muslim scholars have not. In this respect, many western researchers have contributed to developing worldview studies as a separate field of inquiry, including the history of concept, subject matter, objectives, kinds, methods, and applications. Therefore, the need to enhance the Islamic input and research pertaining to this field by introducing an Islamic civilizational framework and approach of inquiry becomes apparent.

scholarly journals Die diskoers tussen Job en Cloete struktureelsemanties beskou

Literator ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Buscop
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Semantic View ◽  
Structural Semantics ◽  
Heuristic Guidance

A structural-semantic view of the discourse between Job and Cloete This article examines an aspect of the interaction between linguistics and literature. It is argued that the structural-semantic theory as developed by A.J. Greimas provides a useful approach in guiding the reader towards a realisation of a coherent whole in literary texts. Possibilities for the application and amplification as well as the usefulness in literature are examined, resulting in the identification of isotopies by means of which cohesion can be attained. In structural semantics an isotopy is the backbone of textual analysis – an isotopy being constituted by sememes, compelled by nuclear and textual semes, within the topos alignment of classemes. The Job-texts written by T.T. Cloete in the “transkripsie” and “perifrase” section of Idiolek are used as sample texts. The article attemps to indicate that structural semantics as theory, and especially its amplification as put forward in this article, is able to provide heuristic guidance in tracing the Job/Cloete discourse.

Why literature students should practise life writing

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Cardell ◽  
Kate Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Creative Space ◽  
Writing Practice

This article considers our experiences teaching a hybrid literature/creative writing subject called “Life Writing.” We consider the value of literature students engaging in creative writing practice—in this instance, the nonfiction subgenre of life writing—as part of their critical literary studies. We argue that in practicing life writing, our literature students are exposed to and gain wider perspective on the practical, critical, creative, and ethical issues that arise from working with literary texts. Such an approach is not with risk. As we discuss in this article, life writing texts can often narrate difficult or traumatic material. However, we want to show how life writing, with its particular focus on actual lives and lived experience, creates a particularly conducive ethical, intellectual, and creative space for learning about and practicing writing.

Everyday Style

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Film Style ◽  
Positive Representations ◽  
Aesthetic Sensibility ◽  
The Way

Where chapter two deals with ordinary moments in extraordinary films, chapter three explores another aspect of the spectrum of the everyday in cinema: the concept of the everyday as a film style, and its relationship to the everyday as subject matter. This chapter examines the way the everyday as film style has been theorised—predominately as an aesthetic sensibility that privileges the undramatic and routine as a conduit to the profound or transcendent. Chapter three asserts that while this scholarship has been useful in illuminating positive representations of the everyday, its attempts to quarantine the everyday from the dramatic are problematic and ultimately reductive. Instead, through detailed case studies of Bresson’s Money (1983) and Haneke’s The Seventh Continent (1989), the chapter presents an alternate approach that allows for a more nuanced appreciation of everyday aesthetics, allowing for films which do not treat the everyday as strictly positive. These films are unsettling precisely for their lack of authorial guidance on how to respond to horrific narrative events; film style is pared back in such a way that moments of violence are afforded the same aesthetic weight as the representation of ordinary and mundane routines.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Roze Hentschell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Material State ◽  
Historical Phenomenology ◽  
The Church

This chapter is an overview of the book’s argument, of the cathedral precinct spaces, their uses, and their users, and outlines the critical framework of the book. It provides an overview of the cathedral and precinct, attending to architectural details, and the various buildings and spaces in the church and precinct, including the interior of the church and the surrounding churchyard. The physical transformations of several sites is highlighted and the material state is discussed. The chapter considers the religious, commercial, civic, and social activities of Paul’s, and provides an overview of some of the everyday users of the space, emphasizing that the precinct operated as a neighbourhood and fostered community. The cultural geography methodology of the book is reviewed, and its approach aligned with historical phenomenology and the notion of spatial dynamism. The importance of both imaginative and literary texts to the overall understanding of St Paul’s is explored.

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