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The Point of Narratology: Part 2 [PDF]
Resisting the current fashion of calling everything, and ourselves as scholars, “post- ” something, as well as the unnoticed scholarly privileging of the present, or “presentism” that comes with it, I return in this article to an age-old novel, written ...
Mieke Bal
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Focalisation in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
This essay is an attempt to clarify several points regarding the concept of focalisation as used by theorists of fiction and film. Two theoretical points are made in the introduction: firstly, focalisation must be theorised as both perception and ...
Celestino Deleyto
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La focalisation ou, dans la terminologie d’Andre Basset, l’“anticipation renforcee”, est un phenomene de mise en relief d’un syntagme nominal, doublement marque : de facon classique, par son extraposition en tete d’enonce et une intonation specifique, mais egalement par la presence d’un morpheme relais qui introduit une disjonction forte entre les deux
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Latin cleft constructions, synchronically, diachronically, and typologically reconsidered
In Latin, cleft constructions are a special syntactic focalisation strategy. The phenomenon is not very frequent. A morphosyntactic analysis of the focus clause, the cleft clause, and the whole construction according to several parameters shows a strong ...
Roland Hoffmann
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Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) explores the link between language and cognition, espousing the linguistic theory known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, according to which the language one speaks shapes one’s cognition and worldview. The film focuses on a
Vincent Jaunas
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E . Dans les écrits historiques de Tacite, il se dégage une notion importante que la critique a peu exploitée, à savoir la « thématisation du regard ».
José Mambwini-Kivuial-Kiaku
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Character focalisation and its function in the story of Susanna
The characters in a story can function as vehicles that carry the message(s) that the implied author intends to convey to the implied readers as they read the story.
Risimati S. Hobyane
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Sémiotisation et littérarisation de la focalisation dans le roman Bleu-Blanc-Rouge d’Alain Mabanckou
In Alain Mabanckou’s novel Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, focusing is a semiotic which can be understood through the pragmatics of an "I-me-narrator" who tells of his presence in the world.
Aboubakar Gounougo
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The article suggests how the ideas in physiological acoustics summed up and further developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, whose figure won popularity among Victorian intellectuals from the middle of the century, could be appropriate to ...
Lilia Miroshnychenko
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Intonation et formulation d’un discours polémique sur la question des droits de l’homme
In this study, we examine how intonation and formulation markers are used by a speaker to produce a controversial discourse in order to disqualify a commonly accepted point of view on human rights. The context The U.S.
Mohamadou Ousmanou
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