Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction

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Routledge, 2001 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 260 pages
This classic text has been substantially rewritten. Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed.
New material includes sections on gendered narrative, film narrative and a discussion of ways in which the internet and global television are changing conceptions of narrative.

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About the author (2001)

MICHAEL TOOLAN is Professor of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is one of the world leading specialists in narratology, teaching in a leading centre of corpus linguistics. He is the editor of the "Journal of Litarary Semantics

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