How to Show Things with Words: A Study on Logic, Language and Literature (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)

Chapter 1 The linguistics structure of narrative transmission 1. Introduction 2. The showing-telling distinction 3. Narrative transmission as cognitive distance: from evidential modalities to indication signs 4. The role of tense, aspect and 'Aktionsart' Chapter 2 Linguistics in Narratology. A critical historical survey 1. Introduction 2. Ingarden, Stanzel, Hamburger: the neutralization of the 'episches Prateritum' as a past tense 3. Muller: quantitative indicators and beyond 4. Weinrich's textlinguistic theory: a tense-centered approach to backgrounded narrative discourse 5. Uspensky: synchronic and retrospective viewpoints as a function of both tense and aspect oppositions 6. Barthes: the semiotics of 'l'effet de reel' 7. Chatman, Prince, Toolan: 'Aktionsart' revisited 8. Caenepeel: perspectivally situated vs. perspectivally non-situated sentences Chapter 3 The narrating instance as locutionary subjectivity 1. Introduction 2. Speech-act theory and narrative discourse 3. The philosophical research on linguistic functions 4. The phenomenological make-up of the narrating instance as locutionary subjectivity 5. Locutionary subjectivity as a(n) (indexical) function of tense, aspect and 'Aktionsart' Chapter 4 Tense 1. Introduction 2. Reichenbach's theory of tense 3. Tense in narrative discourse 4. Tense, perception and memory Chapter 5 Aspect 1. Introduction 2. Classificatory systems of aspectual oppositions 3. Viewpoint aspect and point of view: a first view on the role played by imperfective meaning 4. Imperfectivity as a two-edged aspectual form or another view on viewpoint aspect and point of view 5. A note on iterativity Chapter 6 "Aktionsart" 1. Introduction 2. Vendler's aspectual classes 3. Formal semantic approaches to 'Aktionsart' Chapter 7 The effect of "Aktionsart" on narrative transmission 1. Introduction 2. - STAT eventuality descriptions 3. + STAT eventuality discriptions 4. World-knowledge based event semantics