Hoffmann Narrative Revisited

Telling a story in the age of new media
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-272-8770-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 199, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media. Its ten contributions firstly center on the various forms and functions narratives assume in computer-mediated environments, e.g. websites, weblogs, message boards, etc. In this light, past and present approaches to the description of narratives are presented and reevaluated based on their ability to capture the conceptual and methodological exigencies of new media. Secondly, the volume sheds new light upon the multimodal composition of new media narratives which typically feature multiple co-occurring semiotic modes such as speech, sound, text, static or moving images. In this vein, each paper explores a wide array of authentic examples from text genres as diverse as political speeches, real-time narratives and contemporary feature films. Its wide scope should not only appeal to linguists interested in the discursive and pragmatic dimension of narratives but also to scholars and students in other scientific disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffmann, Christian R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Narrative revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media
Christian R. Hoffmann

Contextual constraints in CMC narratives
Carla Bazzanella

The role of electronics in the perception of everyday narratives
Axel Hübler

“Audacious, brilliant!! What a strike!”: Live text commentaries on the Internet as real-time narratives
Andreas H. Jucker

Once upon a blog. Storytelling in weblogs
Volker J. Eisenlauer and Christian R. Hoffmann

"Need to put his out there (my story)": Narratives in message boards
Jenny Arendholz

Narrative sequences in political discourse: Forms and functions in speeches and hypertext frameworks
Christoph Schubert

Small stories in political discourse: The public self goes private
Anita Fetzer

Unpacking narrative in a hypermedia ‘artedventure’ for children
Maree Stenglin and Emilia Djonov

Chain and choice in filmic narrative: An analysis of multimodal narrative construction in The Fountain
Chiaoi Tseng and John A. Bateman

Film discourse cohesion
Richard Janney

Index