An experimental investigation of the interaction of narrators’ and protagonists’ perspectival prominence in narrative texts

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Christopher Saure, Stefan Hinterwimmer, Anna Pia Jordan-Bertinelli
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Abstract In this paper, we present the results of an experiment investigating the effect of different narrative situations on the availability of locally prominent protagonists as anchor for Free Indirect Discourse (FID). We created items in three conditions: condition A featured a neutral third-person narrator, condition B a homodiegetic first-person narrator and condition C a prominent, evaluative third-person narrator. Participants read several short text segments all ending with FID and were asked to rate the acceptability of the FID sentence. The results revealed that condition B received significantly lower ratings than the other two conditions, whereas there was no significant difference between conditions A and C. An additional study, in which participants had to choose if the thought expressed by FID belonged to the narrator or the protagonist, showed that there was a strong tendency to choose the protagonist as perspectival center in all three conditions. The results from Exp. 1 prove that while the presence of a homodiegetic first-person narrator strongly constrains a locally prominent protagonist’s availability as anchor for FID, it is not similarly affected by the presence of a globally prominent third-person narrator. This further confirms that narrative texts possess an inherent potential for multiperspectivity.
叙事文本中叙述者和主角视角突出相互作用的实验研究
摘要在本文中,我们提出了一项实验的结果,调查了不同的叙述情境对当地突出的主角作为自由间接语篇(FID)锚定的可用性的影响。我们在三种情况下创造道具:条件A是中立的第三人称叙述者,条件B是同叙事的第一人称叙述者,条件C是突出的、评价性的第三人称叙述者。参与者阅读了几个以FID结尾的短文段,并被要求评价FID句子的可接受性。结果显示,条件B的评分明显低于其他两个条件,而条件A和条件c之间没有显著差异。在另一项研究中,参与者必须选择FID表达的思想是属于叙述者还是属于主角,结果表明,在所有三种情况下,都有强烈的倾向选择主角作为视角中心。实验1的结果证明,虽然同叙事第一人称叙述者的存在强烈地限制了局部突出的主角作为《FID》锚点的可用性,但它不会受到全局突出的第三人称叙述者的影响。这进一步证实了叙事文本具有内在的多视角潜力。
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期刊介绍: The aim of the journal is to promote linguistic research by publishing high-quality contributions and thematic special issues from all fields and trends of modern linguistics. In addition to articles and reviews, the journal also features contributions to discussions on current controversies in the field as well as overview articles outlining the state-of-the art of relevant research paradigms. Topics: -General Linguistics -Language Typology -Language acquisition, language change and synchronic variation -Empirical linguistics: experimental and corpus-based research -Contributions to theory-building
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