Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning: Form and Use of Viewpoint Tools across Languages and Modalities

by Barbara Dancygier (Editor), Wei-lun Lu (Editor), Arie Verhagen (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores the cross-linguistic diversity, and possibly inconsistency, of the span of linguistic means that signal reported speech and thought. The integration of broad linguistic (viewpoint in conversation and narrative) and cognitive (theory of mind and understanding the inner life and thought of others) strategies for handling mixed points of view will be considered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110369076
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	03/21/2016
Series:	Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , #55
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

B. Dancygier, University of British Columbia; L. Wei-lun Lu, Mazaryk University; A. Verhagen, University of Leiden.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vii

Introduction: On tools for weaving meaning out of viewpoint threads Arie Verhagen 1

Part I The ubiquity of viewpoint

Discourse viewpoint as network Barbara Dancygier Lieven Vandelanotte 13

Mixed viewpoints and the quotative-reportive cline in German: Reported speech and reportive evidentiality Jeroen Vanderbiesen 41

Viewpoint fusion for realism enhancement in Ainu and Japanese narratives Katsunobu Izutsu Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 93

The socio-cognitive foundation of Danish perspective-mixing dialogue particles Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen Ditte Boeg Thomsen 125

Part II Across languages

Blended viewpoints, mediated witnesses: A cognitive linguistic approach to news narratives Kobie van Krieken José Sanders Hans Hoeken 145

Shifting viewpoints: How does that actually work across languages? An exercise in parallel text analysis Wei-lun Lu Arie Verhagen 169

Perspective: Kawabata's Beauty and Sadness and its translations into English, German, and Dutch Ad Foolen Toshiko Yamaguchi 191

Part III Across modalities

The dynamic interplay between words and pictures in picture storybooks: How visual and verbal information interact and affect the readers' viewpoint and understanding Chie Fukada 217

Maintaining multiple viewpoints with gaze Eve Sweetser Kashmiri Stec 237

Mixed viewpoints in factual and fictive discourse in Catalan Sign Language narratives Maria Josep Jarque Esther Pascual 259

Concluding remarks: Why viewpoint matters Barbara Dancygier 281

Index 289