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Working Definition:
The linguistic instructions telling an audience how to construe a particular action structure in a particular storyworld.
Disciplinary Definitions:
plot: Gerald Prince defines "plot" as (1) "The main incidents of a narrative; the outline of situations and events." (2) "The situations and events as presented to the receiver." (3) "The global dynamic (forward-moving) organization of narrative constituents which is responsible for the thematic interest (indeed, the very intelligibility) of a narrative and for its emotional effect." (Prince, Dictionary of Narratology, 1987, 71-72)
"The global dynamic (forward-moving) organization of narrative constituents which is responsible for the thematic interest (indeed, the very intelligibility) of a narrative and for its emotional effect." (Prince, Dictionary of Narratology, 1987, 71-72)
Comments:
Audiences understand plots that present events outside of their chronological order in their chronological order and reassemble the events as the narrative proceeds.
Notes
"In emphasising the role of construal, cognitive linguists have moved away from earlier treatments of semantics in linguistics, based on the assumption that meaning is independent of human perceptions and human cognition and that it can therefore be objectified and potentially formalised. What unites cognitive linguists (no matter how much they may differ in other ways) is a commitment to the principle that linguistic expressions code a particular way of perceiving the relevant scene. This means that linguistic coding involves such factors as selectivity, perspective, focus, backgrounding, framing, modes of categorisation, and so on." (Lee, Cognitive Lnguistics, 2001, xi)
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