A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative

 | Totorri University
 | Totorri University
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Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense narrative. An in-depth comparative analysis reveals previously undiscovered innovative features specific to how character discourse is presented in modern narratives. Notably, narrative tenses have an impact on thought presentation; in present-tense narrative, Free Direct Thought (FDT) emerges as frequently as Free Indirect Thought (FIT), a departure from the dominance of FIT in modern past-tense narrative. This book will be of interest to stylisticians, narratologists, corpus linguists, and those who have found themselves absorbed in a 21st-century work of present-tense fiction.
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024.  xx, 269 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 25 September 2024
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Cited by one other publication

Ikeo, Reiko & Aika Miura
2024. A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 33:3  pp. 175 ff. DOI logo

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Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN015000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2024020668 | Marc record