World-building in Spanish and English Spoken Narratives
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 129039019
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781474282482
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph transcends the investigation of style in language to explore the style of languages. Spanish and English narrative styles are compared using a picture-book to elicit fifty-four versions of the same story from native speakers. Further methodological innovation is demonstrated by adopting Text-world Theory - until now a framework limited to anglophone data - for the analysis of Spanish, and applying it to reveal differences in the construction of narrative worlds by speakers of both languages. Based on three years’ research including fieldwork in Mexico, the book characterizes two global languages, with significant implications for linguistics, narratology and translation.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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