Résumé
This paper investigates questions of perspective shift or non-shift
against a background of a basic deictic-cognitive divide in our understanding
of what comes under the linguistic notion of perspective. In differentiating
‘distancing’ from ‘free’ indirect speech/thought in narratives, it proposes a
new lens through which to reconsider a class of examples controlled in curious
ways by the narrator’s deictic and cognitive perspective. Turning to a newer
mode of communication – that of Internet memes combining set phrases and images
in one multimodal package – the paper shows that despite this novelty, unusual
uses of quotation in memes in fact join the ranks of existing non-quotative
uses of quotation to express a stance rather than genuinely shift to a
different discourse source. The paper also touches on the question of the
constructional status of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ phenomena investigated.
langue originale | Anglais |
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Pages (de - à) | 170-197 |
Nombre de pages | 28 |
journal | Pragmatics |
Volume | 29 |
Numéro de publication | 2 |
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Etat de la publication | Publié - 24 avr. 2019 |