How to Show Things with Words

Chapter 1 The linguistics structure of narrative transmission
1. Introduction
2. The showing-telling distinction
3. Narrative transmission as cognitive distance: from evidential modalities to indication signs
4. The role of tense, aspect and 'Aktionsart'

Chapter 2 Linguistics in Narratology. A critical historical survey
1. Introduction
2. Ingarden, Stanzel, Hamburger: the neutralization of the 'episches Praeteritum' as a past tense
3. Mueller: quantitative indicators and beyond
4. Weinrich's textlinguistic theory: a tense-centered approach to backgrounded narrative discourse
5. Uspensky: synchronic and retrospective viewpoints as a function of both tense and aspect oppositions
6. Barthes: the semiotics of 'l'effet de reel'
7. Chatman, Prince, Toolan: 'Aktionsart' revisited
8. Caenepeel: perspectivally situated vs. perspectivally non-situated sentences

Chapter 3 The narrating instance as locutionary subjectivity
1. Introduction
2. Speech-act theory and narrative discourse
3. The philosophical research on linguistic functions
4. The phenomenological make-up of the narrating instance as locutionary subjectivity
5. Locutionary subjectivity as a(n) (indexical) function of tense, aspect and 'Aktionsart'

Chapter 4 Tense
1. Introduction
2. Reichenbach's theory of tense
3. Tense in narrative discourse
4. Tense, perception and memory

Chapter 5 Aspect
1. Introduction
2. Classificatory systems of aspectual oppositions
3. Viewpoint aspect and point of view: a first view on the role played by imperfective meaning
4. Imperfectivity as a two-edged aspectual form or another view on viewpoint aspect and point of view
5. A note on iterativity

Chapter 6 "Aktionsart"
1. Introduction
2. Vendler's aspectual classes
3. Formal semantic approaches to 'Aktionsart'

Chapter 7 The effect of "Aktionsart" on narrative transmission
1. Introduction
2. - STAT eventuality descriptions
3. + STAT eventuality discriptions
4. World-knowledge based event semantics