Coherence in literary discourse
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angličtina
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Coherence in literary discourse
Original language description
The concept of coherence has tended to be regarded as a textlinguistic notion (Toolan 2012). It has been methodically discussed also in theories of discourse, namely in a social theory of discourse (Fairclough 2010). Taking an approach which blends methodologically and theoretically various areas of linguistic study, this chapter aims at exploration of coherence in literary discourse. More specifically, it brings together relevant observations and references to reading and understanding implied messagesin literary narratives from functional, pragmatic and cognitive linguistic perspectives. Soon we proceed to an explication of the concept in narratology, regarding coherence as an important feature of (literary) narrative. Analysing aspects and subtypesof coherence in novels and short stories, we perceive literary discourse as a multi-layered structure where ?the communicative characteristics of a literary text are the source of coherence of literary significance? (Kikuchi 2007: 2). Th
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AI - Linguistics
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Publication year
2012
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse
ISBN
978-80-210-6126-2
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
79-102
Number of pages of the book
155
Publisher name
Masarykova univerzita
Place of publication
Brno
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