In:A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. 144–155
Chapter 7Comparisons of writing presentation in PREST and PAST
Published online: 26 September 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.43.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.43.c7
Abstract
This chapter discusses writing presentation in present-
and past-tense narrative. In spite of the formal similarities to speech
presentation, the frequency of writing presentation in both the PREST and
the PAST corpora is much smaller than that of speech presentation. Writing
presentation in present-tense narrative in general tends to be more closely
tied to the viewpoint of a character. The most frequent category in PREST is
NRWA(p), and many examples of this category reflect the characters’ close-up
views on what they perceive visually and psychologically.
Article outline
- 7.1Quantitative overview
- 7.2Direct forms of writing: FDW and DW
- 7.3Free Indirect Writing (FIW)
- 7.4Indirect Writing (IW)
- 7.5Narrator’s Representation of Writing Acts and a topic (NRWA/NRWAp)
- 7.6Narrator’s Representation of Writing (NW)
- 7.7Conclusion
