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- Title
Semantics, Pragmatics, and Narrativity: A Response to David Rudrum.
- Authors
Ryan, Maire-Laure
- Abstract
The article discusses narrativity and is Marie Laure-Ryan's response to David Rudrum's article "From Narrative Representation to Narrative Use: Towards the Limits of Definition". It talks about Rudrum's proposition that the narrativity of a text and how it should be defined depends on how it is used - a theory which Ryan questions as she believes narratives have various uses and defining one should rely on representation instead of use. She also questions Rudrum's making of a narrative as both a constant and a variable and calls it a contradiction. She contrasted narratives with fiction and gave a list of tentative conditions for the definition of a narrative.
- Subjects
RYAN, Marie-Laure; NARRATIVES; NARRATIVE inquiry (Research method); RUDRUM, David; LITERATURE; LITERARY form; LANGUAGE &; languages; DEFINITIONS; DEFINITION (Logic)
- Publication
Narrative, 2006, Vol 14, Issue 2, p188
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2006.0006