Fludernik M. The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The linguistic representation of speech and consciousness

Routledge, 2005. — xvi, 531 p. — ISBN: 0-415-09226-4, 0-203-45657-2.Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction. She deals with the use of linguistic methodology in the study of literature, and subsumes earlier insights into the forms and functions of quotation by aligning them with discourse strategies observable in the oral language. Building on Ann Banfield’s Unspeakable Sentences, the author radically extends Banfield’s model to accommodate evidence from conversational narrative, nonfictional prose and literary works from Chaucer to the present day. Drawing on a vast range of literature, she provides an invaluable resource for researchers in the field, and introduces English readers to extensive work on the subject in German, as well as comparing the free indirect discourse features of German, French and English. This important state-of-the-art study effectively repositions the whole area between literature and linguistics, opening up a new set of questions in narrative theory.True PDF