Chapter 7
Shaping of a voice
Article outline
- Narrative structure, ideational level and appraisal
- Complex stories 3 and 4
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A first-person autobiographical narrative
- Narrative structure
- Ideational level and mind-making ability, literary style
- Agency
- A first-person fictional narrative
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Narrative structure and the ideational level
- Appraisal
- Lexis
- A literary biography
- Narrative structure
- Ideational level and appraisal
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Form and function
- Syntactic structure
- Quantitative findings
- Qualitative findings
- The information flow
- Packaging
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Syntactic packaging
- Noun phrases
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Relative clauses
- Shortened clauses
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Coordination, linking with null subject and gapping
- Prepositional phrases
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Verbs
- Motion verbs and the construction of spatial situations
- Introductory it
- Temporality
- Tense
- Towards a more complex temporal anchorage
- Conclusion and comparison