HOFFMAN, Christian R. [dir.], Narrative revisited : telling a story in the age of new media, Amsterdam et Philadelphie, John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010, 276 p.
Résumé de l'éditeur
The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media. Its ten contributions firstly center on the various forms and functions narratives assume in computer-mediated environments, e.g. websites, weblogs, message boards, etc. In this light, past and present approaches to the description of narratives are presented and reevaluated based on their ability to capture the conceptual and methodological exigencies of new media. Secondly, the volume sheds new light upon the multimodal composition of new media narratives which typically feature multiple co-occurring semiotic modes such as speech, sound, text, static or moving images. In this vein, each paper explores a wide array of authentic examples from text genres as diverse as political speeches, real-time narratives and contemporary feature films. Its wide scope should not only appeal to linguists interested in the discursive and pragmatic dimension of narratives but also to scholars and students in other scientific disciplines.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments vii – viii
Introduction. Narrative revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Christian R. Hoffmann 1 – 18
Contextual constraints in CMC narratives, Carla Bazzanella 19 – 37
The role of electronics in the perception of everyday narratives, Axel Hübler 39 – 56
“Audacious, brilliant!! What a strike!”: Live text commentaries on the Internet as real-time narratives, Andreas H. Jucker 57 – 78
Once upon a blog … Storytelling in weblogs, Volker Eisenlauer and Christian R. Hoffmann 79 - 108
“Neeed to put his out there (my story)”: Narratives in message boards, Jenny Arendholz 109 – 142
Narrative sequences in political discourse: Forms and functions in speeches and hypertext frameworks, Christoph Schubert 143 – 162
Small stories in political discourse: The public self goes private, Anita Fetzer 163 – 184
Unpacking narrative in a hypermedia ‘artedventure’ for children, Maree Stenglin and Emilia Djonov 185 – 212
Chain and choice in filmic narrative: An analysis of multimodal narrative construction in The Fountain, Chiaoi Tseng and John A. Bateman 213 – 244
Film discourse cohesion, Richard W. Janney 245 – 266
Person index 267 – 270
Subject index 271 – 276