Double deixis in second person pronouns as a metaleptic device
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Double deixis in second person pronouns as a metaleptic device. / Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard.
In: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 8, 2019, p. 1-19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Double deixis in second person pronouns as a metaleptic device
AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper discusses double deixis (i.e. when a deictic form points at two referents simultaneously) in second person referential forms. A contribution to cognitive poetics, the article presents a theoretical discussion of the cognitive hinterland behind double-deictic uses of second person forms in which a simple interactional frame (i.e. a cognitive model representing conceptualization of a recurring type of communicative situation) is proposed as a model that readers of literary fiction call upon. Moreover, it is held, drawing on an admittedly ”lite” version of text world theory, that – due to the above-mentioned interactional frame - this is what enables double-deictic use of second person forms along with other metaleptic devices to make sense and have the empathy-generating effect on readers that they have. For illustrative purposes, examples of double deixis in a particular genre of literature called solitaire adventures will be discussed.
AB - This paper discusses double deixis (i.e. when a deictic form points at two referents simultaneously) in second person referential forms. A contribution to cognitive poetics, the article presents a theoretical discussion of the cognitive hinterland behind double-deictic uses of second person forms in which a simple interactional frame (i.e. a cognitive model representing conceptualization of a recurring type of communicative situation) is proposed as a model that readers of literary fiction call upon. Moreover, it is held, drawing on an admittedly ”lite” version of text world theory, that – due to the above-mentioned interactional frame - this is what enables double-deictic use of second person forms along with other metaleptic devices to make sense and have the empathy-generating effect on readers that they have. For illustrative purposes, examples of double deixis in a particular genre of literature called solitaire adventures will be discussed.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - cognitive poetics
KW - cognitive stylistics
KW - discourse world
KW - text world
KW - text world theory
KW - empathy
KW - interactional frame
KW - participation structure
KW - deixis
KW - person deixis
KW - stylistics
KW - second person narrative
KW - solitaire adventures
KW - double deixis
KW - metalepsis
U2 - 10.5278/ojs.globe.v8i0.3086
DO - 10.5278/ojs.globe.v8i0.3086
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
JF - Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
SN - 2246-8838
ER -
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