Context-dependent vantage points in literary narratives: A functional cognitive approach

Tátrai, Szilárd

doi:10.1515/sem-2014-0076

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“…However, their other features including spontaneity, dialogicity and the corresponding reliance on schemas typical of conversational narratives still bring them closer to the prototype of conversational rather than literary narratives (cf. Tátrai 2011: 74-80;2015).…”

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“…The meaningful functioning of language includes several discourse types commonly referred to as "narrative" whose defining feature is that their discourse participants construe and share their experiences of the world in (and through) stories (see Tátrai 2015, cf. Bruner 1986, Tomasello 1999.…”

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“…The basis of this deictic relation is spatio-temporal contiguity between the physical world of the story and that of the narra-tive discourse (cf. Tátrai 2008Tátrai , 2015. Put simply, the narrated events are assumed to occur in the same reality that the storytellers and their addressees inhabit, and in which their discourse unfolds.…”

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On the referential interpretation of computer-mediated narratives

Laczkó

Tátrai

2015

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The paper explores the referential interpretation of narratives through a case study of computer-mediated narrative discourse, a thread of Hungarian stories on an online discussion site. In particular, we are looking to find out what directs the addressee’s attention and how as she attempts to interpret such stories. Adopting the perspective of social cognitive linguistics, we interpret narrative discourses as joint attentional scenes whose interacting participants contribute to the intersubjective construal of referential scenes (including narrative ones) by directing and following each other’s attention. The main results of the investigation are as follows. 1) In the construal of the physical and social worlds of these stories, a key role is played by the deictic relation based on spatial and temporal contiguity which connects the world of the story to the world of the narrative discourse, interpreted as a joint attentional scene. 2) These narrative discourses frequently objectivize, in the form of metapragmatic reflections, both the situatedness of the referential centre (which lies with the storyteller), and the narrator’s subjective attitude to the narrated events.

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2015

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“…Researchers have also developed the term vantage point (Tátrai 2015), which integrates the narrator's physical, social, and mental perspectives as an epistemic grounding in an intersubjective context of shared attention (Tátrai 2015: 13-14), which is a definition in line with the cognitive understanding of perspective.…”

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'I Had a Dream, Which Was not All a Dream'

Nikolaienko

2023

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The article makes a case for a particular kind of conceptual metaphor, the viewpoint metaphor. The viewpoint metaphor is argued to be a tool employed by narrators in personal experience narratives in order to render their irregular perception mode. The viewpoint metaphor allows mapping on the narrated real experience the perception characteristics of other experiences such as watching a movie or having a dream. The research material consisted of a sample of 50 personal experience narratives (25 in English and 25 in Ukrainian) produced by the participants or witnesses, military and civilian, of hostilities mainly in Ukraine in 2014-2023 and in some other conflicts. It was found that two basic and most prominent viewpoint metaphors in this kind of discourse is EXPERIENCING THE EVENT is DREAMING OF THE EVENT or WATCHING A MOVIE OF THE EVENT. These metaphors are often reinforced by other viewpoint metaphors and they tend to repeatedly occur in the narrative. The function of the viewpoint metaphor is expressing the subjective experientiality, emotional condition and embodied perception mode at the time of the experience narrated. Viewpoint is therefore argued to be a part of the mental space’s construal. Studying the viewpoint metaphor allows to shed light onto the conceptual structure of viewpoint. It was found that the elements mapped from the source experience of watching a movie or having a dream include passive witnessing, reduced agency, hushed perception, unreality of events, timelapse, and slow motion.

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“…On a functional cognitive approach, it is a crucial aspect of the meaningful functioning of language that every utterance is produced from a particular point of view but can be interpreted from different points of view (Tátrai 2011(Tátrai , 2015Verschueren 1999). Interactants in a given situation follow and direct each other's attention to the matters of the world in order to share or modify each other's mental representations and orientations.…”

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Semantic and Pragmatic Mechanisms of Humour in Animal Jokes

Nemesi

2020

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The purpose of this paper is to take a close look at the interplay of semantic and pragmatic components of animal jokes. Rather than insisting on the priority of one particular theoretical tradition and selecting a few illustrative examples, 30 animal jokes – most of them translated into English from Hungarian – are presented to help identify the different mechanisms that make them amusing. Adopting a theory-by-theory approach, it becomes clear that some jokes fit well the explanation of frame or script semantics, while others are best captured by one or another pragmatic framework and classification. This leads to the related question of whether it is possible, at this stage of research, to integrate the diverse lines of thought or whether the semantic and pragmatic study of verbal humour will have to remain relatively fragmented. It is argued that certain basic elements of major pragmatic theories are important complements to frame/script semantics, the humour of animal jokes is reliant on the same meaning-generating processes as observed in other jokes, and that the attraction of animal jokes lies in their psychological and cultural-anthropological characteristics. Finally, their cross-cultural investigation is encouraged.

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Context-dependent vantage points in literary narratives: A functional cognitive approach

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

On the referential interpretation of computer-mediated narratives

On the referential interpretation of computer-mediated narratives

'I Had a Dream, Which Was not All a Dream'

Semantic and Pragmatic Mechanisms of Humour in Animal Jokes

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