Literary Narrative and Speech Acts

About This Novel

This book introduces speech act theory into narrative research, treats narrative as a speech act, brings into play Austin's view of language's construction of the world, examines the constructive function of textual discourse on stories and readers, and proposes a basic theoretical framework of narrative performativity. From the perspective of speech act theory, this paper analyzes the role of discourse in constructing stories, explores how discourse constructs the story world from both the elements of the story and the language form of the text, highlighting the difference between the story world within the text and the real world outside the text. Pay close attention to the internal correlation between speech act theory and narrative research, and use the narrative turn as the background to explore the embodiment of narrative performatives in classical narratology and post-classical narratology. The constructivist characteristics of speech act theory and its possible contribution to constructivist narrative research and literary theory are discussed.

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