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Transitivity and agency in Richard Jefferies’s rural essays: an ecostylistic analysis 理查德-杰弗里的乡村散文中的转义和代理：生态风格分析
IF 1 2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2004
Annalisa Federici
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Italian places in Japanese manga: a study on topophilia in graphic narratives 日本漫画中的意大利地方：关于图画叙事中的恋地癖的研究
IF 1 2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2003
Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Giuseppe Samo
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You as a stylistic vector of otherness: from self-ascription to enactment in Kincaid (1988), Adichie (2009) and Azumah Nelson (2021) 你作为他者的文体载体：从金凯德（1988 年）、阿迪奇（2009 年）和阿祖玛-纳尔逊（2021 年）中的自我描述到颁布
IF 1 2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2001
Sandrine Sorlin
{"title":"You as a stylistic vector of otherness: from self-ascription to enactment in Kincaid (1988), Adichie (2009) and Azumah Nelson (2021)","authors":"Sandrine Sorlin","doi":"10.1515/jls-2024-2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2024-2001","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a theoretical pragmatic model (Sorlin, Sandrine. 2022. <jats:italic>The stylistics of ‘you’. Second-person pronoun and its pragmatic effects</jats:italic>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), this article compares the use of the second-person pronoun in three different narratives written by Black writers: Jamaica Kincaid’s essay, <jats:italic>A Small Place</jats:italic> (1988), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “The Thing Around Your Neck” (2009) and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s first novel <jats:italic>Open Water</jats:italic> (2021). It highlights how the racial nature and assumed universality of <jats:italic>you</jats:italic> is exposed in the texts and argues that the pronoun works as a powerful vector of otherness, bringing the (white Western) reader to experience racism in most intimate terms. The three texts propose varied stylistic constellations that draw on the flexibility of the pronoun in terms of potential reference, entailing different positionings of audiences, going from “self-ascription” (Wechsler, Stephen. 2010. What ‘I’ and ‘you’ mean to each other: Person indexicals, self-ascription, and theory of mind. <jats:italic>Language</jats:italic> 86(2). 332–365) to “enactment” (Caracciolo, Marco. 2014. <jats:italic>The experientiality of narrative</jats:italic>. Berlin: De Gruyter; Popova, Yanna B. 2015. <jats:italic>Stories, meaning and experience: Narrativity and enaction</jats:italic>. London &amp; New York: Routledge). The article also evidences how the inter/intra-personal pronoun triggers a blurring of traditional stylistic and narratorial labels and lines. Lastly, from an enactive perspective that sees reading as an intersubjective participatory act where meaning emerges in the very interaction between a teller and a reader, this article sees communicating as an act of coordination based on the metaphor, <jats:sc>communicating is dancing</jats:sc>, inspired by Azumah Nelson’s rhythmic novel.","PeriodicalId":42874,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140567069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thackeray-type narrator revisited: portrayal of characters’ minds as narratorial performance in Vanity Fair 萨克雷式叙述者再探：《名利场》中作为叙述表演的人物心理描写
IF 1 2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2024-2002
Masayuki Nakao
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Exploring the potential of sentiment analysis for the study of negative empathy 探讨情绪分析在消极共情研究中的潜力
2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2011
Carmen Bonasera
{"title":"Exploring the potential of sentiment analysis for the study of negative empathy","authors":"Carmen Bonasera","doi":"10.1515/jls-2023-2011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2023-2011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In connection to literature, negative empathy is a sophisticated form of narrative empathy with fictional characters portrayed as markedly evil and seductive at the same time. Several studies on narrative engagement have explored negative empathy mainly from a theoretical perspective. Conversely, empirical approaches have rarely delved into the dynamics of the linguistic construction of the texts studied. To fill this gap, this paper employs computational techniques to investigate the language of a corpus of novels whose characters are particularly apt for the arousal of negative empathy. More specifically, this study uses Sentiment and Emotion Analysis to explore the lexical representation of emotions and to locate fluctuations in the emotional content of the texts. The ultimate aim is to assess both the potential and the vulnerabilities of Sentiment Analysis for detecting emotional shifts in a literary text and thus for revealing the intensity of its emotional content, which may facilitate the readers’ morally challenging engagement with negative characters.","PeriodicalId":42874,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Connecting with the world: poetic synaesthesia, sensory metaphors and empathy 与世界连接:诗意联觉，感官隐喻和移情
2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2014
Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt
{"title":"Connecting with the world: poetic synaesthesia, sensory metaphors and empathy","authors":"Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt","doi":"10.1515/jls-2023-2014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2023-2014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many poems rely on sensory lexis and metaphors, making them amenable to the readerly experience of sensory overlap or fusion that characterizes synaesthesia. Such sensory language can be considered a way to connect with our emotions and bodies, since our bodily experiences directly influence and control many of our other experiences. Synaesthetic metaphors can thus be related to empathy via embodiment, especially when empathy is understood as playing a part in the reader’s or the spectator’s sensory engagement with works of art. In this article, I explore how empathy can derive from our sensory experience of a few poems that may allow embodied reading experiences. Analyzing sensory language in poems by Dadaist Hugo Ball, Romantics John Keats and Wilfred Owen, and Modernist H.D., I contend that loading poetry with sensations could be construed as an attempt to bridge the gap(s) between the body and the mind by stimulating readers’ empathic response.","PeriodicalId":42874,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134977687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction: stylistic approaches to narrative empathy 导论:叙事共情的文体方法
2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2008
Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla, Fransina Stradling
{"title":"Introduction: stylistic approaches to narrative empathy","authors":"Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla, Fransina Stradling","doi":"10.1515/jls-2023-2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2023-2008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article introduces the special issue by outlining the current state of research into the role of textual-linguistic features in eliciting narrative empathy. Firstly, we address the complexities around defining the term ‘narrative empathy’ and provide some definitional criteria. We then review the ways in which the role of language in narrative empathy has been studied to date in narratology, literary studies, empirical study of literature and stylistics. Based on this review, we argue that stylistic approaches allow for the much-needed exploration of specific linguistic techniques that may contribute to narrative empathy, while also taking into account other contextual factors to address the local nature of reading effects. Finally, we summarise how the contributions to this special issue showcase the affordances of stylistic analysis for the study of narrative empathy and offer new insights into the ways narrative empathy is elicited during the reading process.","PeriodicalId":42874,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134977999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Refreshed hypotheses 刷新假说
2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2015
Suzanne Keen
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“The unlikeliest twins”: the role of intertextual foregrounding and defamiliarisation in creating empathy in Meursault, contre-enquête “最不可能的双胞胎”:互文前景和陌生感在创造同理心中的作用，默尔索，contre-enquête
2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2012
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe
{"title":"“The unlikeliest twins”: the role of intertextual foregrounding and defamiliarisation in creating empathy in <i>Meursault, contre-enquête</i>","authors":"Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe","doi":"10.1515/jls-2023-2012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2023-2012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Kamel Daoud’s debut novel Meursault, contre-enquête is a recasting of Camus’ seminal novel, L’Étranger . Daoud creates an overt and deliberate set of intertextual references to Camus’ text by describing the same events from the point of view of the brother of the nameless ‘ Arab ’ murdered by Meursault in L’Étranger. Thus the differences in character and event presentation are defamiliarised and foregrounded. This article argues that such intertextual foregrounding and defamiliarisation has implications for reader identification with the characters and related empathetic responses. Using a corpus-assisted stylistic analysis of the original French texts, the article illustrates these implications by analysing the ways the language of Daoud’s novel may contribute to alternation between readers’ empathy and antipathy towards its characters.","PeriodicalId":42874,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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From witness to accomplice: the manipulation of readers’ empathy through consciousness representation in Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley 从见证者到共犯:帕特里夏·海史密斯的《天才里普利先生》中通过意识表征对读者移情的操纵
2区 文学
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2010
Juliette Bourget
{"title":"From witness to accomplice: the manipulation of readers’ empathy through consciousness representation in Patricia Highsmith’s <i>The Talented Mr Ripley</i>","authors":"Juliette Bourget","doi":"10.1515/jls-2023-2010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2023-2010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Within the field of narrative empathy studies, the concept of “negative empathy,” meaning a sharing of emotions with morally negative characters, has become increasingly discussed. Through the examination of The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith, this article contributes new insights into narratological and stylistic devices eliciting readers’ empathy. This study analyses responses from expert and non-expert readers to understand how they conceptualise empathy and qualify their engagement with the novel’s eponymous character. I argue that the novel’s figural narration, which involves extensive displays of the character’s mind and silencing the narrator’s moral guidance, invites empathy. Finally, I suggest that Highsmith manipulates her readers through three related stylistic techniques (free indirect discourse, stylistic contagion and equivocal sentences), which blur the lines between the third-person narration and the character’s inner discourse. By insidiously presenting the hero’s behaviour as sensible and justified, Highsmith persuades readers to become not only witnesses but accomplices to Ripley’s crimes.","PeriodicalId":42874,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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