‘Represented perception’: A study in narrative style

Brinton, Laurel J.

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“…Earlier studies in literary research like Brinton (1980) and Banfield (1982) have discussed the linguistic differences between speech and perception, especially in the context of third-person narratives written in so-called 'free indirect style'. Brinton and Banfield use the terms 'represented speech and thought' and 'reflective consciousness', and the terms 'represented perception' and 'non-reflective consciousness' to refer to representations of speech and perception, respectively, of the sort illustrated in examples (1) and (2).…”

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Who Perceives? Who Thinks? Anchoring Free Reports of Perception and Thought in Narratives

Bimpikou

2020

Open Library of Humanities

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Who Perceives? Who Thinks? Anchoring Free Reports of Perception and Thought in Narratives

Bimpikou

2020

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“…Perrault and Cohen show that beliefs acquired privately about objects, people, places, etc., can \override" some of the conjuncts of mutual belief. They give the following example, adapted from Donnellan 1966: (5) S and H are at a party. They watch together as water and gin are being poured in two identical glasses and given to women W1 and W2, respectively.…”

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“…Rather, the pragmatic situation might be thought of as the reader \overhearing" (or being \privy to") the character's thoughts, or the reader \perceiving" the ctional world through the character's senses (or a combination of the two; cf. Brinton 1980). The subjective character is clearly not addressing the reader (the reader does not even exist in the ctional world).…”

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References in Narrative Text

Wiebe¹

1991

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The propositional content of a reference is the proposition attributing to the referent the properties that correspond to the nouns and modi ers in the reference (for example, the propositional content of`Mary' is that the referent is named`Mary'). During language comprehension, the hearer or reader must determine the set of beliefs with respect to which the propositional content of a reference is to be understood. In the prototypical case, this set consists of the propositions that she believes that the speaker or writer believes that she and the speaker or writer mutually believe. This paper identi es two contexts in which the propositional content of a speci c reference is not understood with respect to this set| subjective and objective sentences in third-person ctional narrative text|and identi es some implications of this for understanding speci c references in these contexts.A speci c reference has a propositional content|the proposition attributing to the referent the properties that correspond to the nouns and modi ers in the reference. For example, the propositional content of`Mary' is that the referent is named`Mary', the propositional content of`the car' is that the referent is a car, and the propositional content of`he' is that the referent is male. During language comprehension, the recipient (the hearer or reader) must determine the set of beliefs with respect to which the propositional content of a reference is to be understood. In the prototypical case, this set consists of the propositions that she believes that the producer (the speaker or writer) believes that she and the producer mutually believe. This paper identi es two contexts in which the propositional content of a speci c reference is not understood with respect to this set|subjective and objective sentences in third-person ctional narrative text|and identi es some implications of this for understanding speci c references in these contexts.This work has grown out of the work in philosophy (e.g., Castañeda 1970), linguistics (e.g., Fodor 1979), and arti cial intelligence (e.g., Rapaport 1986) on the interpretation of references in opaque contexts. Opaque contexts are the objects of sentences with third-person subjects and with main verbs that are either propositional-attitude verbs, such as`believe', know', and`hope', or other psychological and perceptual verbs, such as`want',`hate', and see'. Under one interpretation of such a sentence (the de dicto as opposed to the de re one), the propositional content of references in the object are understood with respect to the beliefs of the subject of the sentence. As we shall see, references in subjective sentences have a similar property, even in those that do not have the syntactic form described above.In section 2, I provide background information about subjective sentences in third-person narrative text. Sections 3, 4, and 5 identify the set of beliefs with respect to which the propositional content of a speci c reference is understood in conversation, objective sentences, and subjective sen...

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“…These three constructions invite naturalization strategies which heighten the effect of free inBrought to you by | University of Arizona Authenticated Download Date | 6/3/15 4:48 PM direct discourse, or narrated monologue, a form of speech representation which has been a focus of interest in recent narrative theory (Cohn, 1978;Banfield, 1973Banfield, , 1978Banfield, , 1982Rimmon-Kenan, 1983;Ron, 1981;McHale, 1978;and Brinton, 1980), äs well äs in the history and criticism of the novel (Lips, 1926;Page, 1972Page, , 1973Pascal, 1977).…”

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Language Chance and "Naturalization" in Free Indirect Speech

Dry¹

1990

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‘Represented perception’: A study in narrative style

Cited by 47 publications

References 7 publications

Who Perceives? Who Thinks? Anchoring Free Reports of Perception and Thought in Narratives

Who Perceives? Who Thinks? Anchoring Free Reports of Perception and Thought in Narratives

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Language Chance and "Naturalization" in Free Indirect Speech

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