Pub Date : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1177/09639470251319912
Alicia Muro
The aim of this paper is to analyse Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical in terms of its approaches to storytelling and narration. A selection of songs will be analysed focusing on their narrative traits and the figure of the narrator, including its (un)reliability. It will be argued that the songs in Hamilton can be classified depending on their approaches to storytelling, including examples of narration to the audience, confessional monologues, epistolary narration, or scenes based on dialogue/conversations. An analysis of who tells Hamilton’s story will be relevant to understand the whole show, for it is also concerned with issues of legacy and remembrance.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310855
Yuan Ping
{"title":"Book Review: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies","authors":"Yuan Ping","doi":"10.1177/09639470241310855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470241310855","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310856
{"title":"In memoriam Tony Bex","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/09639470241310856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470241310856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310849
Junjie Ma
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Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1177/09639470241299710
Valentina Vetri
Understanding the interaction between people and the environment is one of the issues facing contemporary society. In recent dramatic works, the reflection on sustainability and ecological preservation as a crucial necessity in contemporary society has taken center stage. A case in point is Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here (2005), in which the protagonist, Myra, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer, opts for a green burial, causing incredulity in her family members. In the play, the destruction of the environment is necessarily reflected in the crisis of human relations: discussing human disconnection from the environment necessitates examining the disruption of family and community ties. Wade’s play is preoccupied with two fundamental issues: first, it challenges the dominant framing of death, which aims at separating oneself from the physical/natural process of dying. This natural process is replaced by death management practices in which nature and physicality are denied. Second, Myra’s eco-friendly choice is presented by Wade as the sole means by which family bonds can be revived: in reality, it is only through a reconnection with the environment and nature that human relationships can thrive and become meaningful. Drawing on Conversation Analysis, this paper seeks to demonstrate how discourse on sustainability in drama can open up new avenues for investigating human existence and relationships, challenging dominant frames of death and end-of-life decisions.
了解人与环境之间的相互作用是当代社会面临的问题之一。在近期的戏剧作品中，对可持续发展和生态保护作为当代社会重要必需品的反思占据了中心位置。劳拉-韦德（Laura Wade）的《比这里更冷》（Coldder Than Here，2005 年）就是一个典型的例子，剧中主人公迈拉被诊断出癌症晚期，她选择了绿色葬礼，引起了家人的难以置信。在剧中，环境的破坏必然反映在人际关系的危机中：讨论人类与环境的脱节，就必须审视家庭和社区关系的破坏。韦德的剧本关注两个基本问题：首先，它挑战了主流的死亡框架，其目的是将自己从死亡的物理/自然过程中分离出来。这种自然过程被死亡管理实践所取代，其中的自然性和物理性被否定。其次，迈拉的环保选择被韦德说成是恢复家庭纽带的唯一途径：实际上，只有通过与环境和自然重新建立联系，人与人之间的关系才能蓬勃发展并变得有意义。本文利用会话分析法，试图说明戏剧中关于可持续发展的论述如何为研究人类的生存和关系开辟新的途径，挑战关于死亡和临终决定的主流框架。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-27DOI: 10.1177/09639470241288361
Yang Yue
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Pub Date : 2024-10-19DOI: 10.1177/09639470241292813
Yifan Zhu
This study examines gender representation in Oscar Wilde’s comedy and satire, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), using corpus stylistic analysis. Specifically, it analyzes gender characterization patterns in the original drama and explores how these patterns shift in two Chinese translations: Shen Xingren’s translation in 1918 and Hong Shen’s translation in 1923. By analyzing keyword patterns, collocational patterns, and characterization cues, the study reveals the intricate nature of gender characterization in the source text. Subsequently, a comparison is made between the textual patterns of the source text and their manifestations in the translations. The findings indicate that while Shen Xingren’s translation quite faithfully (re)represents the gender images and relations of the source text, Hong Shen’s selective appropriation of women and men characterization in his translation not only suppresses the source text’s potential to challenge moral absolutism towards women but also undermines the voices of women present in the original text. The article suggests that the re-representation or shifts in gender characterization observed between the source and target texts can be attributed to the translator’s ideology and adherence to particular poetics.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1177/09639470241286469
Mimi Huang
With the growing prevalence of health and illness narratives on digital platforms, research examining the social psychological processes involved in these storytelling environments remains scarce. This paper addresses this research gap by conducting a mixed-methods study of digital storytelling within the UK’s healthcare context, focusing on online consumer reviews of the medical memoir, Do no harm: stories of life, death and brain surgery (Marsh, 2014). Utilising computer-assisted text analysis methods of LIWC-22 and the Sketch Engine, linguistic cues for cognitive, affective, social and perceptual processes are identified in a corpus of online consumer reviews. A subsequent qualitative analysis, based on ‘narrative modulation’ (Huang, 2024, 2020), investigates the role of these processes in constructing and developing storylines across the user reviews. Finally, the study explores how consumer reviews in the form of ‘small stories’ challenge canonical narratives in the UK’s healthcare services. This research advances the field of narrative studies by emphasising the role of social psychological processes (Chung and Pennebaker, 2019) in modulating emerging, evolving and counter narratives in digital storytelling. The findings reveal an instrumental role of social psychological processes, as signalled by linguistic cues, in shaping narrative threads in online user reviews. This study not only develops narrative modulation as a valuable concept for narrative analysis, but also underscores its effectiveness when combined with computer-assisted text analysis tools for in-depth examinations of narrative data. Furthermore, it provides critical insights into digital storytelling in healthcare contexts, promoting knowledge transfer across narrative studies, stylistics, social psychology and medical humanities.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1177/09639470241290366
Annalisa Federici
This essay adopts a Critical Stylistic approach to disclose the linguistic mechanisms of creation of (counter-)ideological meaning in a specific type of gendered text, that is the female-targeted periodical Vogue at the beginning of the twentieth century. In particular, it investigates the linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of the twenty-four issues of the magazine published in 1922. In a period characterised by the gradual emergence of new identities and roles for women, Vogue chiefly employed evocative depictions of the latest trends in clothing to convey transformative notions of womanhood and defy gender categories. A Critical Stylistic analysis of Vogue’s fashion features demonstrates that this periodical favoured alluring conceptions of female assertiveness and autonomy through the use of a sensuous language of desire and feeling, describing pleasurable, multisensory encounters with fashion and modernity. Vogue’s discursive strategies show that the magazine employed linguistic form, along with visual and verbal content, to encourage women to embrace both a confident longing for personal pleasure and self-fulfilment, and the progressive gender ideology deftly woven into a periodical where female agency, physicality and modernity were favoured rather than repressed. This essay, therefore, builds on foundational research in language and gender identity that highlights the discursive construction of gender ideologies, with a view to expanding the range of scholarly interest (generally focused on content rather than linguistic form) in women’s magazines as composite cultural products which played a fundamental role in mediating new conceptions of femininity in the interwar period.
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