Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives; Methodology: the construction and annotation of the corpus; A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation; Speech presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Writing presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Thought presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation
Case studies of specific texts from the corpusConclusion; List of texts sampled; The SWTP tagset; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Di
Summary
This book represents a new direction at the interface between the fields of stylistics and corpus linguistics, namely the use of a corpus methodology to investigate how people's words and thoughts are presented in written narratives
