|aDiscourse, consciousness, and time :|bthe flow and displacement of conscious experience in speaking and writing /|cby Wallace Chafe.
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|aChicago :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c1994.
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|axiii, 327 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 304-315) and index.
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|a1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding Language and the Mind -- 3. The Nature of Consciousness -- 4. Speaking and Writing -- 5. Intonation Units -- 6. Activation Cost -- 7. Starting Points, Subjects, and the Light Subject Constraint -- 8. Identifiability and "Definiteness" -- 9. The One New Idea Constraint -- 10. Discourse Topics -- 11. Topic Hierarchies and Sentences -- 12. Another Language -- 13. Some Alternative Approaches to Information Flow -- 14. The Flow of Consciousness in Music -- 15. The Immediate and Displaced Modes in Conversational Language -- 16. Representing Other Speech and Thought in Conversation -- 17. Displaced Immediacy in Written First-Person Fiction -- 18. Representing Other Speech and Thought in First-Person Fiction with Displaced Immediacy -- 19. Displaced Immediacy in Written Third-Person Fiction -- 20. Written Fiction That (Partially) Lacks a Represented Consciousness -- 21. Written Nonfiction -- 22. Displacement Integrated with Flow.
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|a23. Written Paragraphs and Discourse Topics -- 24. Epilogue.
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|aWallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on analyses of conversational speech, written fiction and nonfiction, the North American Indian language Seneca, and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many topics of linguistic importance, such as anaphora, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages such as the historical present and free indirect style. This book offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness for linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.
Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style. While the book focuses on English, there are also discussions of the North American Indian language Seneca and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people. This work offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness that will interest linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.