In:Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction
Chloe Harrison
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 26] 2017
► pp. 113–129
Chapter 7Scanning the compositional path of ‘Here We Aren’t, So Quickly’
Published online: 24 May 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.26.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.26.c7
Article outline
- 7.1Introduction
- 7.1.1Scanning paths
- 7.2‘Here we aren’t, so quickly’
- 7.3Analysability (‘I counted the seconds backward’)
- 7.4Components (‘Not wilfully unclear, just trying to say it as it wasn’t’)
- 7.5Composition (‘Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?’)
- 7.6Conclusion: ‘We reached the middle so quickly’
- 7.7Review
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