1. From Structuralist Semantics to Cognitive Linguistics When Roman Jakobson pulled metaphor and metonymy to the center of the stage in linguistics and poetics, structuralists were trying to account for meaning by means of a componential model of clearly defined semantic elements (Jakobson, "Closing Statement"). Inspired by the success of Vladimir Propp's structuralist narratology, which attemp...

Many works (of both fiction and non-fiction)span multiple, intersecting narratives, each ofwhich constitutes a story in its own right. Inthis work I introduce the task of multiple nar-rative disentanglement (MND), in which theaim is to tease these narratives apart by assign-ing passages from a text to the sub-narrativesto which they belong. The motivating exam-pl...

Unreliable narration as a major narrative method plays significant role in modern narratology. This paper will make study of unreliable with stylistics Kazuo Ishiguro’s famous work The Remains the Day, which won Booker Prize 1989. From perspective language itself, including three aspects, ambiguous words, double negatives, and parentheses.

Games studies today are characterised by both the novelty of interpreting the unfolding digital revolution, and insecurity about where the discipline stands in terms of other academic fields of inquiry. The ludology/narratology debate exhibits two important features: anxiety about the proximity of the discipline to the games industry, and a formalist bias that dominates the field. Focussing on ...

Abstract The discipline of cognitive narratology applies insights linguistics to narrative analysis. This study seeks demonstrate the value by exploring role reader and extent reader’s knowledge in constructing characters. While traditional criticism often limits itself world text, recognizes that from other texts real also contributes construction will show literary social a text affects As ca...