This article investigates the extent to which TED talks can be considered a narrative register. This study analyses ‘narrative versus non-narrative discourse’ (Biber 1988) in a corpus of TED talks (n = 2483). TED talks were found to be typically non-narrative (−2.47 mean). However, there was a great degree of variation, with approximately 10% of talks (n = 257) classified as narrative. When TED talks were compared to registers in prior studies they were close to academic prose and presented a similar pattern in terms of disciplinary variation, with ‘soft’ disciplines closer to narratives. When textual data was examined, the average TED talk was found to weave narrative and descriptive elements, but were found to be more descriptive overall.
{"title":"Narrative discourse in TED Talks","authors":"Peter Wingrove","doi":"10.1075/etc.00051.win","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00051.win","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article investigates the extent to which TED talks can be considered a narrative register. This study\u0000 analyses ‘narrative versus non-narrative discourse’ (Biber 1988) in a corpus of TED\u0000 talks (n = 2483). TED talks were found to be typically non-narrative (−2.47 mean). However, there was a great\u0000 degree of variation, with approximately 10% of talks (n = 257) classified as narrative. When TED talks were\u0000 compared to registers in prior studies they were close to academic prose and presented a similar pattern in terms of disciplinary\u0000 variation, with ‘soft’ disciplines closer to narratives. When textual data was examined, the average TED talk was found to weave\u0000 narrative and descriptive elements, but were found to be more descriptive overall.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44975085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Direct quotation (DQ) use varies considerably across disciplines, from complete absence in hard sciences to relative frequency in social sciences. This study investigates DQs in literature, focusing on PhD thesis introductions in English. A corpus of 15 introductions tagged for move-and-step genre analysis was used to investigate DQ frequency, their distribution in the rhetorical structure of introductions, and source text types used for DQs. The findings show that (i) DQs are the most common source use practice in the corpus; (ii) DQs are concentrated in three rhetorical steps: reviewing previous research, presenting the analysed literary work, and making topic generalisations; and (iii) source text type used for DQs is associated with specific rhetorical steps. These findings suggest that DQs are essential for the realisation of the rhetorical purpose of the steps which carry them and for knowledge construction in literature PhD theses.
{"title":"Direct quotations in the rhetorical structure of literature PhD thesis introductions","authors":"Masumi Ono, Bojana Petrić","doi":"10.1075/etc.00049.ono","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00049.ono","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Direct quotation (DQ) use varies considerably across disciplines, from complete absence in hard sciences to\u0000 relative frequency in social sciences. This study investigates DQs in literature, focusing on PhD thesis introductions in English.\u0000 A corpus of 15 introductions tagged for move-and-step genre analysis was used to investigate DQ frequency, their distribution in\u0000 the rhetorical structure of introductions, and source text types used for DQs. The findings show that (i) DQs are the most common\u0000 source use practice in the corpus; (ii) DQs are concentrated in three rhetorical steps: reviewing previous research, presenting\u0000 the analysed literary work, and making topic generalisations; and (iii) source text type used for DQs is associated with specific\u0000 rhetorical steps. These findings suggest that DQs are essential for the realisation of the rhetorical purpose of the steps which\u0000 carry them and for knowledge construction in literature PhD theses.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46677119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Jessica Maufort, Marc Maufort","doi":"10.1075/etc.00052.mau","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00052.mau","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48029076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language has the capacity to create fictional worlds and to describe real-life social structures. In this paper, we explore gendered social structures in a corpus of nineteenth-century children’s fiction. We describe these structures in terms of the frequent nouns that are used to label people in the texts of the corpus. Through a bottom-up categorisation of these nouns into four groups, we find, in line with previous studies, textual evidence of a society that is unequal and that is divided into a private and a public sphere. Our study focuses in particular on mothers, the most frequent character type in children’s fiction. The representation of mothers includes abstract qualities, such as a mother’s love, as well as concrete behaviours, such as mothers taking their children into their arms. Both types of qualities contribute to the depiction of mothers as an anchor point for the private sphere.
{"title":"The representation of mothers and the gendered social structure of nineteenth-century children’s\u0000 literature","authors":"A. Čermáková, Michaela Mahlberg","doi":"10.1075/etc.00044.cer","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00044.cer","url":null,"abstract":"Language has the capacity to create fictional worlds and to describe real-life social structures. In this paper, we explore gendered social structures in a corpus of nineteenth-century children’s fiction. We describe these structures in terms of the frequent nouns that are used to label people in the texts of the corpus. Through a bottom-up categorisation of these nouns into four groups, we find, in line with previous studies, textual evidence of a society that is unequal and that is divided into a private and a public sphere. Our study focuses in particular on mothers, the most frequent character type in children’s fiction. The representation of mothers includes abstract qualities, such as a mother’s love, as well as concrete behaviours, such as mothers taking their children into their arms. Both types of qualities contribute to the depiction of mothers as an anchor point for the private sphere.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59423528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sergio Abellán, D. Bormann, Francisco Sáez de Adana, A. García
Quality TV is a multi-layered phenomenon that often expresses itself through its formal qualities. This article asks to what extent form also depends on cultural origin. It compares the Spanish historical series Isabel (RTVE) and the Anglo-American The Crown (Netflix) by subjecting their narrative and medium-specific styles to a mixed method analysis. Despite similar authorial intentions, Isabel invests in action and dialogue and The Crown in cinematic style; furthermore, Isabel’s teleological and political narrative contrasts with The Crown’s fragmented, more private narrative. While both series ingeniously adapt their telling to their historical periods, the Spanish understanding of history as a feat of memorization simplifies the narrative to thicken factual density, whereas the more metacognitive Anglo-American approach to history ensures a multi-level reading of the account, which is more in line with quality TV.
{"title":"Quality TV and cultural origin","authors":"Sergio Abellán, D. Bormann, Francisco Sáez de Adana, A. García","doi":"10.1075/etc.00045.abe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00045.abe","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Quality TV is a multi-layered phenomenon that often expresses itself through its formal qualities. This article\u0000 asks to what extent form also depends on cultural origin. It compares the Spanish historical series Isabel (RTVE)\u0000 and the Anglo-American The Crown (Netflix) by subjecting their narrative and medium-specific styles to a mixed\u0000 method analysis. Despite similar authorial intentions, Isabel invests in action and dialogue and The\u0000 Crown in cinematic style; furthermore, Isabel’s teleological and political narrative contrasts with\u0000 The Crown’s fragmented, more private narrative. While both series ingeniously adapt their telling to their\u0000 historical periods, the Spanish understanding of history as a feat of memorization simplifies the narrative to thicken factual\u0000 density, whereas the more metacognitive Anglo-American approach to history ensures a multi-level reading of the account, which is\u0000 more in line with quality TV.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41796523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study investigates stance and engagement strategies of Nigerian Supreme Court judges in constructing arguments in their opinions. Fifty purposively selected judicial opinions were quantitatively and qualitatively analysed using Hyland’s stance and engagement model. The findings reveal that Nigerian Supreme Court judges used more stance than engagement features. Among the stance features found, the judges used more self-mention devices to establish authorial presence and distinguish their views from others. Prevalent among engagement markers, on the other hand, are directives, informed by the normative nature of the text and the judges’ keenness to owning such prescribed norms.
{"title":"Stance and engagement in selected Nigerian Supreme Court judgments","authors":"Florence Oluwaseyi Daniel, F. Unuabonah","doi":"10.1075/etc.21021.dan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.21021.dan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study investigates stance and engagement strategies of Nigerian Supreme Court judges in constructing arguments\u0000 in their opinions. Fifty purposively selected judicial opinions were quantitatively and qualitatively analysed using Hyland’s\u0000 stance and engagement model. The findings reveal that Nigerian Supreme Court judges used more stance than engagement features.\u0000 Among the stance features found, the judges used more self-mention devices to establish authorial presence and distinguish their\u0000 views from others. Prevalent among engagement markers, on the other hand, are directives, informed by the normative nature of the\u0000 text and the judges’ keenness to owning such prescribed norms.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47198988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the function of cohesive devices (i.e., the linguistic tools that are usually used to link the various parts of the text) in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. In Lucky’s soliloquy, certain cohesive devices are employed intensively so as to impede immediate understanding. At the same time, Beckett’s distinctive use of cohesive devices uniquely establishes a more profound awareness of the work’s message, which this article identifies as strategic coherence. This paper employed an embedded (QUAL:quan) mixed-methods approach and a validated model of cohesion to analyse Lucky’s speech.
{"title":"Non-coherent cohesive texts","authors":"Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash","doi":"10.1075/etc.00046.abu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00046.abu","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the function of cohesive devices (i.e., the linguistic tools that are usually used to link\u0000 the various parts of the text) in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. In Lucky’s soliloquy, certain cohesive devices are\u0000 employed intensively so as to impede immediate understanding. At the same time, Beckett’s distinctive use of cohesive devices\u0000 uniquely establishes a more profound awareness of the work’s message, which this article identifies as strategic coherence. This\u0000 paper employed an embedded (QUAL:quan) mixed-methods approach and a validated model of cohesion to analyse Lucky’s speech.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46350334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic attribution, the direct acknowledgement of external sources, is investigated in two corpora of novice academic English, representing first and second language writing in linguistics. The forms and uses of attribution are analysed in a formal-functional framework. There is an overall underrepresentation of attribution in the learner corpus. However, the corpora have a similar proportional distribution of integral and non-integral attribution, but a difference in subtypes of these. Undated attributions are discussed as a special case. They occur in specific contexts, of which reference to course reading is peculiar to novice writing. Comparisons with expert corpora in Norwegian and English indicate that some, but not all, of the differences between the novice corpora may be linked to influence from the learners’ first language and culture.
{"title":"Attribution in novice academic writing","authors":"H. Hasselgård","doi":"10.1075/etc.00047.has","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00047.has","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Academic attribution, the direct acknowledgement of external sources, is investigated in two corpora of novice\u0000 academic English, representing first and second language writing in linguistics. The forms and uses of attribution are analysed in\u0000 a formal-functional framework. There is an overall underrepresentation of attribution in the learner corpus. However, the corpora\u0000 have a similar proportional distribution of integral and non-integral attribution, but a difference in subtypes of these. Undated\u0000 attributions are discussed as a special case. They occur in specific contexts, of which reference to course reading is peculiar to\u0000 novice writing. Comparisons with expert corpora in Norwegian and English indicate that some, but not all, of the differences\u0000 between the novice corpora may be linked to influence from the learners’ first language and culture.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42352576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inscribed in the field of cognitive narrative theory, this paper asks, and attempts to answer, a number of questions about the early emergence of mind in James’s notebook material for his short fiction. These questions essentially turn on the metarepresentational and aspectualizing potential of notebook entries in genetic relation to the finished tales, that is, on their capacity to present the projected storyworld, from its very conception, as a function of the subjectivity of one or several characters in the cognitive role of metarepresentational sources, or else as a dementalised lump of content to be aspectualised later in the process of execution. Analysis of the relevant notebook material yields a polarity between epistemic and contentual entries, and reveals a set of cognitive phenomena based on the alteration or continuity of the primitive balance of sources which allows one to conclude that James’s characteristic concern with the mental dynamics of his narratives, rather than being a compositional addition, was deeply embedded in his earliest fictional projects.
{"title":"The emergence of mind in Henry James’s notebook material","authors":"José A. Álvarez-Amorós","doi":"10.1075/etc.00043.alv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00043.alv","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Inscribed in the field of cognitive narrative theory, this paper asks, and attempts to answer, a number of questions about the early emergence of mind in James’s notebook material for his short fiction. These questions essentially turn on the metarepresentational and aspectualizing potential of notebook entries in genetic relation to the finished tales, that is, on their capacity to present the projected storyworld, from its very conception, as a function of the subjectivity of one or several characters in the cognitive role of metarepresentational sources, or else as a dementalised lump of content to be aspectualised later in the process of execution. Analysis of the relevant notebook material yields a polarity between epistemic and contentual entries, and reveals a set of cognitive phenomena based on the alteration or continuity of the primitive balance of sources which allows one to conclude that James’s characteristic concern with the mental dynamics of his narratives, rather than being a compositional addition, was deeply embedded in his earliest fictional projects.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41479429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper considers the relevance of various approaches to the study of ‘Given’ and ‘New’ to a number of practical problems: complaints from listeners to UK radio programmes that presenters place emphasis on the wrong words; inaudibility of openings of utterances in radio news bulletins; and ambiguity of pronouns. Approaches to ‘Given’ and ‘New’ to be discussed include those whose concerns are with intonation (e.g., Halliday & Matthiessen 2014), those who pay attention to definiteness/indefiniteness in the nominal group (e.g., Martin 1992), and those who are more concerned with what is in the minds of hearers and readers (e.g., Prince 1981; Lambrecht 1994). The underlying questions that are being investigated are: How free are speakers and writers to assign ‘Given’ or ‘New’ status to entities? Are there constraints on what they can do intonationally, or with definiteness, or with pronouns?
{"title":"‘Actually given’ versus ‘presented as given’ and ‘actually new’ versus ‘presented as new’","authors":"Margaret Berry","doi":"10.1075/etc.00041.ber","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00041.ber","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper considers the relevance of various approaches to the study of ‘Given’ and ‘New’ to a number of\u0000 practical problems: complaints from listeners to UK radio programmes that presenters place emphasis on the wrong words;\u0000 inaudibility of openings of utterances in radio news bulletins; and ambiguity of pronouns. Approaches to ‘Given’ and ‘New’ to be\u0000 discussed include those whose concerns are with intonation (e.g., Halliday & Matthiessen\u0000 2014), those who pay attention to definiteness/indefiniteness in the nominal group (e.g., Martin 1992), and those who are more concerned with what is in the minds of hearers and readers (e.g.,\u0000 Prince 1981; Lambrecht 1994). The\u0000 underlying questions that are being investigated are: How free are speakers and writers to assign ‘Given’ or ‘New’ status to\u0000 entities? Are there constraints on what they can do intonationally, or with definiteness, or with pronouns?","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46020246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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