Linguistics

LING 119 Narrative Structure: The linguistics of storytelling

Course about narratives, the complex stories that people build and tell each other. Examines these linguistically: What is a story from a linguistic point of view? What are its components? How can we understand traditional concepts like perspective-taking, chronology, transport, and the narrator within modern linguistic frameworks? Topics may include quotation, tense and aspect, textual cohesion, and discourse relations.

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): LING 53.

Credits

5

General Education Code

TA

Instructor

Pranav Anand