{"title":"Patrick Colm Hogan, How Authors’ Minds Make Stories and Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition","authors":"T. D. Keyser","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.1.07KEY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.1.07KEY","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"137-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59430949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survivals: The Yeatsian element in Paul Muldoon’s “At the Sign of the Black Horse, September 1999”","authors":"Wit Píetrzak","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.2.02PIE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.2.02PIE","url":null,"abstract":"I trace Paul Muldoon’s borrowing from Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter” along with some other intertextual references in “At the Sign of the Black Horse, September 1999” (Moy Sand and Gravel) with a view to demonstrating that Muldoon’s poem represents both a challenge to Yeats’s political ideas and acceptance of his aesthetics of vacillation. Subscribing to the idea that poetry may be a sort of protective charm against the evils of the world, Muldoon discovers a reassuring strength in the moments when Yeats sheds his mask of a lofty mage.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"177-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saying the unsayable: Imagining reconciliation in Gail Jones’s Sorry","authors":"Valérie-Anne Belleflamme","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.2.01BEL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.2.01BEL","url":null,"abstract":"In her novel Sorry (2007), Australian novelist and essayist Gail Jones engages in a reflection on the ethics of reconciliation. Written in response to her wish to acknowledge the debt to the Stolen Generations, Sorry offers new possibilities of ethical mourning, allowing the dead to return and the voiceless to speak. This article explores the ways in which Jones not only fashions a narrative that bypasses the unsayable dimension of Australia’s history and the representational difficulties inherent in trauma but also fosters the empathetic imagination through a metadiscursive discussion of the act of reading. Self-referentiality and self-reflexivity are also examined, as they allow Jones to draw attention to her novel’s writerly elaborations and offer an alternative to standard reconciliation practices.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"159-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59430955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michaela Mahlberg, Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction","authors":"M. Milojković","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.1.08MIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.1.08MIL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"143-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.8.1.08MIL","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genesis plural: Jenny Diski’s reconfiguration of God and his Word in Only Human","authors":"Ingrid Bertrand","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.2.03BER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.2.03BER","url":null,"abstract":"This article is devoted to Jenny Diski’s polyphonic rewriting of the biblical myth of Abraham and Sarah in Only Human: A Divine Comedy (2000). It shows how this subversive novel, through its juxtaposition of two competing narrative voices – an unidentified human narrator and God himself –, challenges the omniscience and transcendence usually attributed to God, but also the power of his creative Word, and launches a reflection on storytelling and truth, presenting thereby an “only human” Bible.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"194-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How authors' minds make stories","authors":"T. D. Keyser","doi":"10.5860/choice.50-6596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.50-6596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"137-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71142132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argument structures in Chinese university students’ argumentative writing: A contrastive study","authors":"Xinghua Liu, Clare Furneaux","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.1.03LIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.1.03LIU","url":null,"abstract":"Situated within a Systemic Functional Linguistics genre paradigm, this study adopted a function-based linguistic approach to examine the argument structures in English writing produced by Chinese university students of English as foreign language (EFL). Their English writing was contrasted with three other sets of argumentative essays in order to explore differences and similarities in the use of argument structures. The four sets of essays were produced by three groups of university students: native English- and Chinese-speaking university students and Chinese university EFL students. Participants’ interviews and questionnaire responses were also collected. The study found that most native English-speaking participants used an analytical arguing strategy, while most Chinese-speaking university participants preferred a hortatory argument structure both in their English and Chinese writing. It was also found that Chinese participants’ English writing was influenced by both English and Chinese.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"65-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.8.1.03LIU","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59430558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mel Evans, The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity","authors":"Marco Condorelli","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.2.08CON","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.2.08CON","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"276-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.8.2.08CON","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Word order in English and French. The position of English and French adverbial connectors of contrast","authors":"Maïté Dupont","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.1.04DUP","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.1.04DUP","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper compares the word order patterns of English and French adverbial connectors of contrast in a comparable bilingual corpus of quality newspaper editorials. The study shows that the two languages offer the same possibilities in terms of connector positioning but differ markedly in the preferred patterns that they display. In both languages, connector placement proves to be influenced by three main types of factors: language-specific syntactic, rhetorical and lexical factors. The notion of Rheme, which tends to be under-researched in the literature in comparison to that of Theme, plays a key role in the analysis.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"88-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.8.1.04DUP","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59430622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hendrik De Smet, Spreading Patterns . Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation","authors":"M. Hilpert","doi":"10.1075/ETC.8.1.05HIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.8.1.05HIL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"8 1","pages":"125-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.8.1.05HIL","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}