scholarly journals Second-Person Narratives in Non-Fiction

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Everyday Communication

The aim of the article is to analyse the particularity of second-person narratives in non-fiction. Their special status results from the fact that telling another person his or her own story is a convention in fiction but occurs rarely in everyday communication. In non-fiction narratives, the problem of different perspectives (of the narrator and the addressee) is particularly valid, i.e. often the point of view of the narrative “you” is only a disguised point of view of the “I.” The analysis of A Man by Oriana Fallaci shows the shift from the melting of perspectives to an evident distance. In Hanna Krall’s Hamlet, the “I” presents the “you” with an ultimate interpretation of his life.

scholarly journals UTTERANCE NOMINALIZATION PECULIARITIES BY MEANS OF PERSON NAMES IN THE ENGLISH AND TATAR LANGUAGES

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Эльмира Рафаилевна Ибрагимова
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Pronoun ◽  
Peripheral Type ◽  
Autonomous Functioning ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Colloquial Speech

В данной статье анализируются высказывания из национальных лингвистических корпусов татарского и английского языков с точки зрения возможности их номинализации посредством наименований лица, включенных в состав данных высказываний. Рассмотрены как традиционно выделяемые типы номинализации - события, факта, пропозиции, так и номинализация посредством наименования лица как периферийный тип. Установлено, что как английское, так и татарское номинативное предложение не выполняет по отношению к называемому одушевленному лицу функции субституции и конкретное наименование лица, выражая признак, обладает лишь предикативной референцией. Выявлены сходства и различия в функционировании наименований лица как средства номинализации в английских и татарских высказываниях. Сделаны выводы о том, что в английском языке автономное функционирование наименования лица как отдельного предложения возможно только в разговорной речи. В стилистически нейтральных высказываниях английского языка всегда имеет место глагол. В татарском языке оценка может выражаться как наименованием лица, так и прилагательным. В обоих языках достаточно частотными являются наименования лица, образованные от имен прилагательных путем инверсии. И в английском, и в татарском языках исследуемые примеры довольно часто содержат сопровождающее местоимение второго лица. This article analyzes the statements from the national linguistic corpus of the Tatar and English languages from the point of view of their nominalization potential by means of the person names in these above-mentioned statements. The author considered both the traditionally distinguished types of nominalization (events, facts, propositions) and nominalization by the person name as a peripheral type. It has been established that both the English and Tatar nominative sentences do not fulfill the function of substitution in relation to the named animate person, and the specific person name expressing the feature has only a predicative reference. The similarities and differences in the functioning of the person names as the means of nominalization in English and Tatar expressions have been revealed. The author concluded that in English the autonomous functioning of the person name as a separate sentence is possible only in colloquial speech. In stylistically neutral expressions of the English language, a verb always occurs. In the Tatar language, the assessment can be expressed both by the person name and by the adjective. In both languages, the person names formed from adjectives by means of inversion are quite frequent. In both the English and Tatar languages, the studied examples quite often contain an accompanying second person pronoun

Indirect Speech Acts in the Russians’ Everyday Communication

10.12737/1893 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Нестерова ◽  
T. Nesterova
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Everyday Communication

The phenomena of indirect communication (namely contextual-situational indirect speech acts) which are typical for the situations of the Russians’ everyday communication: situations of addressing, attention attracting; acquaintance; greeting; farewell; congratulation; wish; gratitude; apology; request; consent, permission; disagreement, objection, refusal; invitation; offer; council; consolation, sympathy, condolence; compliment, approval, praise have been described in this paper. Direct and conventional indirect speech acts, realizing the aforementioned intensions, have been specified from the speech etiquette point of view. The system research of indirect, contextual-situational oblique speech acts in the given situations of communication has not been practically carried out. Considering the cooperativity zone (zone of communicators’ benevolent relations), the author has picked out and described the main types of contextual-situational indirect speech acts (including hints and manipulation; syncretic and transposed forms), demonstrated their combinatory peculiarities in the structure of indirect speech genres. Creation of typology related to contextual- situational indirect speech acts (as well as other phenomena of indirect communication) in cooperative situations of the Russians’ everyday communication makes a certain contribution to the development of indirect communication theory and has also a culturological value. The use of given research results can be valuable both for further study of everyday converse, cross-cultural communication, speech genres, speech etiquette and in practical activities of teachers who are taking up the problems of communication and language teaching (including Russian as a foreign language). The ability related to indirect realization of communicative meanings, their operation and correct decoding promotes effective com- munication and is necessary for comprehension and interpretation of texts from fiction and publicistic literature, as well as for translation activities.

Self-Interaction in a Second-Person Point of View

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (0) ◽  
pp. 1P1-11b6
Author(s):  
Itaru SHIMIZU ◽  
Masayuki HARA ◽  
Daisuke YAMAGUCHI ◽  
Yuji ISHINO ◽  
Masaya TAKASAKI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Second Person

scholarly journals The Geography of ‘Otherness’: Spaces of Conflict in Smaro Kamboureli’s in the Second Person

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Rocco De Leo
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Abstract Language ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
Different Levels

In today’s “liquid” society, boundaries and limits are shifting or disorienting: belonging to no place, not knowing where ‘home’ is, underlines the sense of uncertainty and in-betweenness experienced by people. This contribution suggests five spatial issues Greek-born Canadian author Smaro Kamboureli has to negotiate with in her ‘poetic diary’ in the second person, where she investigates the duality of the self, displaying the double “I” of the writer’s split subjectivity on a concrete (Greece) as well as abstract (language) place of living. Kamboureli’s account of a duel with and a paradoxical courting of what was and is now for her “the place of language” is related to the awareness of inhabiting a “third” zone of expectations: the difference of origin, of country, of point of view. In conclusion, the different levels of spatial negotiations Kamboureli has had to come to terms with have made her a completely different person. Her life on the border, epitomized in turn by airports, boats, Greece, and the Greek islands, is indeed an endless research of, as well as a conflict with, the ‘Other’, which opens up questions about the relativity of the space/place dichotomy.

Re-enacting in the Second Person

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Karim Dharamsi
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Person ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Second Person

AbstractR. G. Collingwood’s theory of re-enactment has long been understood as an important contribution to the philosophy of history. It has also been challenging to understand how re-enactment is operationalized in the practice of understanding past actors or, indeed, other minds occupying less remote regions of our experiences. Sebastian Rödl has recently articulated a compelling defence of second person ascription, arguing that it is, in form, analogous to first person understanding. By Rödl’s lights, second person understanding follows the same order of reason as its first person counterpart. In this paper I argue that Rödl’s case for second person understanding, and its relationship to the first person point of view, is at once compelling in its own right but also helpful in explaining how re-enactment may be operationalized.

scholarly journals Towards a second-person neuropsychiatry

2016 ◽  
Vol 371 (1686) ◽  
pp. 20150081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonhard Schilbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Clinical Point

Psychiatric disorders can affect our ability to successfully and enjoyably interact with others. Conversely, having difficulties in social relations is known to increase the risk of developing a psychiatric disorder. In this article, the assumption that psychiatric disorders can be construed as disorders of social interaction is reviewed from a clinical point of view. Furthermore, it is argued that a psychiatrically motivated focus on the dynamics of social interaction may help to provide new perspectives for the field of social neuroscience. Such progress may be crucial to realize social neuroscience's translational potential and to advance the transdiagnostic investigation of the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders.

scholarly journals In and Out, or the Memoir’s Many Points of View

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Robert Kusek
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The aim of this paper is to investigate the concept of the point of view with regard to the genre of memoir. Having provided a brief discussion of the genre’s poetics and various, often conflicting attempts at establishing its generic indexes as well as its generic identity, the paper will examine several contemporary specimens of the memoir and will try to identify the occurrence of Gérard Genette’s modal triad (i.e. internal focalization, external focalization, and zero focalization) in their respective narratives. What is more, the paper will attempt to conclude whether such a narratological category as “mode” can be considered a generative tool as far as the memoir’s genology is concerned and, if so, what overall implications this recognition might have for understanding the memoir’s poetics and its traditional understanding as a genre of non-fiction.

scholarly journals Il caso della Contessa Cornelia Zangheri ne' Bandi in due testi del secolo XVIII dal punto di vista del genere non-fiction

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Fabio Boni
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Non Fiction

Przypadek hrabiny Cornelii Zangheri ne’ Bandi w dwóch tekstach XVIII w. z punktu widzenia gatunku non-fictionStreszczenieArtykuł przedstawia dwa teksty z XVIII w. dotyczące wydarzenia, które miało miejscew mieście Cesena w 1731 r.: Parere sopra la cagione della morte della Signora ContessaCornelia Zangheri ne’ Bandi cesenate esposto in una lettera al signor co. Ottolino Ottolini daGiuseppe Bianchini canonico di Verona oraz Relazione del funestissimo evento della SignoraCornelia Zangheri ne’ Bandi occorso li 20 Marzo 1731 in Cesena (anonimowy rękopis, któregoautorem jest prawdopodobnie Scipione Maffei). Te dwa teksty zostały poddane analiziez punktu widzenia gatunku non-fiction, aby odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy stanowią oneprzykład tego gatunku, chociaż ante litteram.Słowa kluczowe: non fiction, Giuseppe Bianchini, Cornelia Zangheri, XVIII w., kronika The case of the Countess Cornelia Zangheri ne’ Bandi in two 18th century worksfrom non-fiction point of viewAbstractThe article presents the 18th century texts regarding an event that occurred in Cesena in1731: Parere sopra la cagione della morte della Signora Contessa Cornelia Zangheri ne’ Bandicesenate esposto in una lettera al signor co. Ottolino Ottolini da Giuseppe Bianchini canonicodi Verona oraz Relazione del funestissimo evento della Signora Cornelia Zangheri ne’ Bandioccorso li 20 Marzo 1731 in Cesena (anonymous manuscript whose author is most probablyScipone Maffei). Those two texts were analyzed from the non-fiction point of view in order toanswer the question whether they are examples of said genre, even if ante litteram.Keywords: non fiction, Giuseppe Bianchini, Cornelia Zangheri, 18th century, chronicle

scholarly journals Forms of address in Basque

Pragmatics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-332
Author(s):  
Xabier Alberdi-Larizgoitia
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Address Forms ◽  
Grammatical Analysis ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Pronominal System

Abstract The aim of this article is twofold: first, to analyze and characterize forms of address in present-day Basque from a linguistic and sociolinguistic point of view, and, second, to underscore some of the distinctive features that make Basque interesting with regard to address. This work characterizes forms and systems of address in Basque based on two main factors: second-person pronouns and allocutivity. Five types are proposed depending on dialectal variety, and the existing differences in each of these systems are described. This article aims to fill a gap in Basque studies by analyzing modes of address in present-day Basque as a whole and going beyond mere grammatical analysis: previous studies are rather partial and confusing in terms of linguistic description, dialectal distribution and social usage (hierarchy among modes of address); in contrast, this article, based on extensive field work, gives an account of the different address systems according to the dialect and shows the sociopragmatic value (i.e., level of formality or politeness and personal distance) that each mode of address acquires in its system. The article will also highlight some of the distinctive linguistic features that make Basque interesting with regard to address. Forms of address in Basque display strong similarities with those in other languages in terms of the pronominal system and its historical development, yet they also show some distinctive features, namely: verbal allocutivity, which presents the speaker-hearer axis; gender differences in verb forms for familiar address; and the grammaticalization of expressive palatalization in the case of the xu form of address (xu being an expressive variant of the polite pronoun zu). Current trends towards simplification of the systems of address are also discussed, as is the existence of groups of speakers who use a simplified system.

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