Introduction: On tools for weaving meaning out of viewpoint threads

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction: On tools for weaving meaning out of viewpoint threads 1
5. Part I: The ubiquity of viewpoint
6. Discourse viewpoint as network 13
7. Mixed viewpoints and the quotative-reportive cline in German: Reported speech and reportive evidentiality 41
8. Viewpoint fusion for realism enhancement in Ainu and Japanese narratives 93
9. The socio-cognitive foundation of Danish perspective-mixing dialogue particles 125
10. Part II: Across languages
11. Blended viewpoints, mediated witnesses: A cognitive linguistic approach to news narratives 145
12. Shifting viewpoints: How does that actually work across languages? An exercise in parallel text analysis 169
13. Perspective: Kawabata’s Beauty and Sadness and its translations into English, German, and Dutch 191
14. Part III: Across modalities
15. The dynamic interplay between words and pictures in picture storybooks: How visual and verbal information interact and affect the readers’ viewpoint and understanding 217
16. Maintaining multiple viewpoints with gaze 237
17. Mixed viewpoints in factual and fictive discourse in Catalan Sign Language narratives 259
18. Concluding remarks: Why viewpoint matters 281
19. Index 289
20. Authors and artists discussed 292