The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness.
- Author / Editor
- Fludernik, Monica.
The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness.
- Published
- New York: Routledge, 1993.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 536 pp.
- Description
- Offers a theoretical model for representing language—both oral and literary—and analyzes various modes of discourse such as direct discourse, free indirect discourse, dual voicing, etc. Observes at one point (p. 369) that "Chaucer's free indirect discourse has been . . . stubbornly ignored and . . . persistently dismissed as quite the real thing after all" (p. 369), referring to evidence cited earlier in sections 2.2 and 3.4.3, the latter analyzing a number of quotations from Chaucer to exemplify the "uncertainty of tense usage" in Middle English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
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