Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning : Form and Use of Viewpoint Tools across Languages and Modalities / Barbara Dancygier, Wei-lun Lu, Arie Verhagen.

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: On tools for weaving meaning out of viewpoint threads -- Part I: The ubiquity of viewpoint -- Discourse viewpoint as network -- Mixed viewpoints and the quotative-reportive cline in German: Reported speech and reportive evidentiality -- Viewpoint fusion for realism enhancement in Ainu and Japanese narratives -- The socio-cognitive foundation of Danish perspective-mixing dialogue particles -- Part II: Across languages -- Blended viewpoints, mediated witnesses: A cognitive linguistic approach to news narratives -- Shifting viewpoints: How does that actually work across languages? An exercise in parallel text analysis -- Perspective: Kawabata’s Beauty and Sadness and its translations into English, German, and Dutch -- Part III: Across modalities -- The dynamic interplay between words and pictures in picture storybooks: How visual and verbal information interact and affect the readers’ viewpoint and understanding -- Maintaining multiple viewpoints with gaze -- Mixed viewpoints in factual and fictive discourse in Catalan Sign Language narratives -- Concluding remarks: Why viewpoint matters -- Index -- Authors and artists discussed

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