Naslov
Expressing Agency in Narrative Discourse

Autori
Podboj, Martina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, ostalo

Knjiga
Essays in Honour of Boris Berić's Sixty-Fifth Birthday: “What's Past Is Prologue"

Urednik/ci
Buljan, Gabrijela ; Matek, Ljubica ; Oklopčić, Biljana ; Poljak Rehlicki, Jasna ; Runtić, Sanja ; Zlomislić, Jadranka

Izdavač
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Grad
Newcastle upon Tyne

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
303-327

ISBN
1-5275-5507-0

Ključne riječi
Narrative analysis, discourse analysis, agency, positioning, migration

Sažetak
This study discusses the notion of agency in language and how it is constructed in narrative discourse. It does so by looking into linguistic devices and discursive strategies that speakers employ when recounting their personal experiences in narrative form in order to negotiate their and other social actors’ agency and, by extension, discursively construct various identity positions. The argument presented is that agency should be studied as a discursive phenomenon, and for narrative discourse, this means taking into account how agency emerges in the interplay of different layers of narrative context, i.e., the story world, the storytelling world, and the wider social context in which the first two are embedded. The analysis, based on a corpus of narratives of personal experience of migration told by female migrants from Croatia, focuses on two most prominent devices for agency construction in Croatian: pronominal shift and constructed dialogue. Systematic usage of these linguistic devices across narrative context results in discursive strategies of (de)agentivisation, generalisation, and delayed agency, which are further discussed in the paper.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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