"The Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the 'logical' rather than the 'stylistic' aspect of narratives within the range of current issues in the interdisciplinary study of narratives being conducted in linguistics, philosophy, literature, cognitive science, and Artificial Intelligence. The book quantitatively analyzes naturally occurring narratives randomly selected from the British National Corpus (BNC) as well as James Joyce's (1882-1941) The Dead (1914) and Fredrik Backman's (1981-) A Man Called Ove(2012). Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) formalization (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) is employed and enriched with the representations and interpretations of perspective/point of view, genre differences, coherence relations, and episodes, which are called in the book Perspectival DRT (PDRT)"--
Lee argues that narratives are both compositional and logical. For the first, she argues that the meaning of a narrative is the function of the meaning of every sentence occurring in it and the way these sentences are put together and thus compositional. For the second, she argues that certain conclusions and inferences that readers, listeners, or viewers draw from the events happening in narratives are considered valid and hence logical. In sections on foundation, timeline, and character she covers narrative structure, the theoretical toolkit, tense and aspect, the pluperfect, the progressive, free indirect discourse, indexicals, definite noun phrases, and expressives. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the logical aspect of narratives. The book provides Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) formalization (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) of naturally occurring narrative data from corpus and literary works.
