<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Speech presentation, largely a stylistic notion, attracts scholars’ attention from various fields. While narrative theory is devoted to studies on language in fiction and treats speech presentation in close relation with narrator’s distance from the narrative and intervention in the character’s utterance, linguistic perspectives range from categorical classification of speech presentation structures to theoretical exploration into its nature and function. In the meantime stylistics recognizes the compositional and communicative process of speech presentation in narrative and examines linguistic devices by which the narrator orients the reader and creates a text’s style. This paper reviews a number of approaches to speech presentation and the distinctive features of each approach shed light on further stylistic studies on this important discursive phenomenon.</p></abstract>

Speech presentation, largely a stylistic notion, attracts scholars’ attention from various fields. While narrative theory is devoted to studies on language in fiction and treats speech presentation in close relation with narrator’s distance from the narrative and intervention in the character’s utterance, linguistic perspectives range from categorical classification of speech presentation structures to theoretical exploration into its nature and function. In the meantime stylistics recognizes the compositional and communicative process of speech presentation in narrative and examines linguistic devices by which the narrator orients the reader and creates a text’s style. This paper reviews a number of approaches to speech presentation and the distinctive features of each approach shed light on further stylistic studies on this important discursive phenomenon.

Speech presentation: A preliminary review from multiple perspectives

PhD, College of Foreign Languages & Literatures Fudan University Shanghai, 200433,

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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Speech presentation, largely a stylistic notion, attracts scholars’ attention from various fields. While narrative theory is devoted to studies on language in...

Speech presentation: A preliminary review from multiple perspectives

Published Online: Mar 14, 2017

Page range: 182 - 199

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2017-0011

Keywords
speech presentation, review, stylistics

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Speech presentation: A preliminary review from multiple perspectives

Published Online: Mar 14, 2017

Page range: 182 - 199

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2017-0011

Keywordsspeech presentation, review, stylistics

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
speech presentation, review, stylistics