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In:Form-function Relations in Narrative Development: How Anna became a writer
E. Birgitta Svensson
[Studies in Narrative 24] 2018
► pp. 185–224

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Chapter 8
Increased fictionality and context sensitivity

Published online: 3 April 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.24.c8

Article outline

Narrative structure, ideational level, and appraisal
- A short story – using language towards aesthetic ends
  - Narrative structure
  - Ideational level and literary style
  - Appraisal
- 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
- Syntactic structure
  - Quantitative findings
  - Qualitative findings
  - The information flow
- Packaging
  - Syntactic packaging
  - Noun phrases
  - Relative clauses
  - Shortened clauses, omissions of subject and verb
  - Coordination of nouns, verbs and adverbs
  - Prepositional phrases
  - Verbs
  - The construction of spatial situations
- Temporality and the shaping of co-presence
Transfer from English
Conclusion and comparison
Notes