イケオ レイコ   IKEO Reiko
  池尾 玲子
   所属   専修大学  国際コミュニケーション学部
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2019/08/28
形態種別 研究論文(学術雑誌)
査読 査読あり
標題 ‘Colloquialization’ in fiction: a corpus-driven analysis of present-tense fiction
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Language and Literature
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 28(3),pp.280-304
総ページ数 25
概要 Over the past decade, more and more writers have used the present tense as the primary tense for their fictional narratives. This paper shows that contemporary present-tense fiction has more lexical and syntactic characteristics which are similar to spoken discourse than past-tense fiction by comparing lexis and structures in two corpora: a corpus consisting of present-tense narratives and a corpus of past-tense narratives. It also discusses how the use of the present tense affects the management of viewpoint in narrative by relating its lexical, structural characteristics to the presentation of characters’ speech and thoughts.
DOI 10.1177/0963947019868894