Spatial reference in narrative domains

Herman, David

doi:10.1515/text.2001.010

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“…The construction of this illness identity is compounded by Claire's positioning as passive in relation to the other characters, produced through verbal and non‐verbal spatial referents. Spatial referents track the movement of objects in space from the deictic centre of the narrator's perspective, providing ‘not merely descriptive backdrop but information needed to interpret an action structure’ (Herman : 526). While Claire does not actively ‘go out’ to places beyond the home (a verb which would imply active movement away from a central point in space), other characters do ‘come in’ to the narrated space she occupies (l.5, 6–7).…”

Section: The Chair: the Immobile Body And The Making Of An Illness Idmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘If I can walk that far’: space and embodiment in stories of illness and recovery

Heavey

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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Illness and recovery transform embodied experience, and transform the experience of space. Space, in turn, is a valuable resource in the telling of an illness narrative. Starting from a phenomenological perspective that takes the body to be the centre of experience, and hence of selfhood and storytelling, this article offers an argument for and an approach to analysing space as a narrative resource in stories about illness and recovery. Using a case study of one woman's stories about her amputation, it demonstrates how both narrated space and narrating space can be used as devices to structure the narrative and position its characters and interlocutors to construct the narrator's embodied experiences and identities. The article reveals intersections between embodied experience, space, and narrative identity construction, offering a new way of attending to illness narratives and a new way of engaging with narrative space.

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Section: The Chair: the Immobile Body And The Making Of An Illness Idmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘If I can walk that far’: space and embodiment in stories of illness and recovery

Heavey

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Locativity is indeed inherent to fiction and spatial and temporal reference is not an optional or peripheral feature of narration but a core property that helps constitute narrative domains (cf. Herman 2001). However, the case of fiction is slightly different from that of conversation since reference is made to text-internal physical and temporal situations.…”

Section: + Explicit Text-internal Reference (+Endophoric Reference) 7mentioning

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A corpus-based analysis of do so anaphora in fictional and non-fictional English

Prado-Alonso¹

2017

Brno Studies in English

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This paper presents an in-depth corpus-based analysis of 'do so' verbal anaphora constructions in different fictional and non-fictional written English texts taken from different computerised corpora of British and American Present-day English, comprising texts from the 1960s, 1990s and 2000s. 'Do so' verbal anaphora, as in 'I ate an Apple yesterday in the park, and Peter did so last week', has received extensive attention from a theoretical perspective. Research has focused mainly on the analysis of the categorical factors -i.e. semantic and syntactic -that determine the use of the construction. Little research, however, deals with the analysis of 'do so' anaphora in real written English. The present analysis, based on tested criteria of multidimensional linguistic variation, sheds light on the linguistic and textual factors that drive the pragmatic use and the distribution of the construction. It will be shown that, in addition to semantic and grammatical factors, genre variation also plays an important role in the use of 'do so' anaphora in written discourse.

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“…Some of this work claims that it can be more difficult than L suggests to distinguish narrative from other genres. Herman () argues that while temporal juncture is necessary in order for a sequence of clauses to be interpreted as narrative, it is not sufficient, and that it is thus hard to draw a line between narration and description. Other scholars have found it useful to distinguish multiple narrative genres, both in everyday conversation and in more formal contexts.…”

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‘Oral versions of personal experience’: Labovian narrative analysis and its uptake

Johnstone

2016

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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William Labov is known across the human and social sciences for his work on oral narratives about personal experience. This article provides an overview of that research and discusses its uptake and influence in linguistics and in other fields. Subsequent scholarship on narrative has critiqued Labov's model on the grounds that it privileges a certain genre of personal-experience narrative and underplays the role of interlocutors and other contextual features in shaping oral narratives, but such scholarship inevitably borrows Labov's insight that the form of narrative is linked to its interactional functions. Narrative research in psychology and other fields often cites Labov without actually making much use of Labov's model, but Labovian narrative analysis has nonetheless had an enormous influence in making possible and legitimizing the study of everyday, vernacular narration. F€ ur seineArbeit zu m€ undlichen Erz€ ahlungen € uber pers€ onliche Erfahrungen ist William Labov in den Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften bekannt. Der vorliegende Aufsatz bietet einen € Uberblick € uber diese Forschung; es wird er€ ortert, wie diese Forschung aufgenommen wurde und wie sie die Sprachwissenschaft und andere F€ acher beeinflusst hat. Wissenschaftler kritisierten in der Folge Labovs Erz€ ahlmodell mit der Begr€ undung, dass dieses ein gewisses Genre von Erz€ ahlungen € uber pers€ onliche Erfahrungen bevorzugt und die Rolle der Gespr€ achspartner sowie weiterer kontextueller Merkmale, die m€ undliche Erz€ ahlungen pr€ agen, herunterspielt. Diese Forschung entlehnt jedoch unvermeidbar Labovs Erkenntnis, dass die Form der Erz€ ahlung mit ihren interaktionalen Funktionen verbunden ist. Die Erz€ ahlforschung in Psychologie und anderen F€ achern zitiert Labov h€ aufig, jedoch ohne besonders viel Gebrauch von seinem Modell zu machen. Trotzdem hatte die Labov'sche Erz€ ahlanalyse einen enormen Einfluss, indem sie die Untersuchung von allt€ aglicher, umgangssprachlicher Erz€ ahlung erm€ oglicht und legitimiert hat. [German]

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Spatial reference in narrative domains

Cited by 24 publications

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‘If I can walk that far’: space and embodiment in stories of illness and recovery

‘If I can walk that far’: space and embodiment in stories of illness and recovery

A corpus-based analysis of do so anaphora in fictional and non-fictional English

‘Oral versions of personal experience’: Labovian narrative analysis and its uptake

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