Discourse, Consciousness, and Time The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

Name: Discourse, Consciousness, and Time The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing
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ISBN: 9780226100548

ISBN-10: 0226100545

ISBN-13: 9780226100548

Edition: 1994

Authors: Wallace Chafe

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Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style. While…

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Symbols Used in Transcriptions of Speech



Introduction



Understanding Language and the Mind



The Nature of Consciousness



Speaking and Writing



Intonation Units



Activation Cost



Starting Points, Subjects, and the Light Subject Constraint



Identifiability and "Definiteness"



The One New Idea Constraint



Discourse Topics



Topic Hierarchies and Sentences



Another Language



Some Alternative Approaches to Information Flow



The Flow of Consciousness in Music



The Immediate and Displaced Modes in Conversational Language



Representing Other Speech and Thought in Conversation



Displaced Immediacy in Written First-Person Fiction



Representing Other Speech and Thought in First-Person Fiction withDisplaced Immediacy



Displaced Immediacy in Written Third-Person Fiction



Written Fiction That (Partially) Lacks a Represented Consciousness



Written Nonfiction



Displacement Integrated with Flow



Written Paragraphs and Discourse Topics



Epilogue


References


Index