Chapter 8
Increased fictionality and context sensitivity
Article outline
- Narrative structure, ideational level, and appraisal
- A short story – using language towards aesthetic ends
- Narrative structure
- Ideational level and literary style
- Appraisal
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The narrative texts as communicative links
- A reflective anecdote: writing in a digitalized world
- Narrative structure
- Appraisal
- Transitivity pattern, lexis and visual-spatial representations
- Form and function
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Syntactic structure
- Quantitative findings
- Qualitative findings
- The information flow
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Packaging
- Syntactic packaging
- Noun phrases
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Relative clauses
- Shortened clauses, omissions of subject and verb
- Coordination of nouns, verbs and adverbs
- Prepositional phrases
- Verbs
- The construction of spatial situations
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Temporality and the shaping of co-presence
- Transfer from English
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Conclusion and comparison
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Notes