Chapter 1 Introduction -- A corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives -- chapter 2 Methodology -- The construction and annotation of the corpus -- chapter 3 A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation -- chapter 4 Speech presentation in the corpus -- A quantitative and qualitative analysis -- chapter 5 Writing presentation in the corpus -- A quantitative and qualitative analysis -- chapter 6 Thought presentation in the corpus -- A quantitative and qualitative analysis -- chapter 7 Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation -- chapter 8 Case studies of specific texts from the corpus -- chapter 9 Conclusion
Summary
This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. The book includes detailed discussions of:The construction of this corpus of late twentieth-century written British narratives taken from fiction, newspaper news reports and)
