TY - JOUR AU - R. Kovačević, Maja PY - 2020/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - SPEECH, THOUGHT AND WRITING REPRESENTATION MODES IN JANE AUSTENʼS NOVEL SENSE AND SENSIBILITY JF - PHILOLOGIST – Journal of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies JA - PH VL - 11 IS - 22 SE - LANGUAGE DO - 10.21618/fil2022116k UR - https://filolog.rs.ba/index.php/filolog/article/view/75 SP - 116-142 AB - <p>Bakhtin’s views (1980:127-130) on the importance of studying speech representation and its interaction with authorial context incited prolific research in various disciplines. The research presented in this paper is based on Bakhtin’s crucial claims about speech representation, and on the theoretical framework of linguistic stylistics (Kovačević 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015; Katnić-Bakaršić 2001) and representology (Kovačević 2015:253-254).</p><p>The aim of this paper is twofold—to identify the types of speech, thought and writing representation employed in the novel <em>Sense and Sensibility </em>and to describe their interaction with the authorial context.</p><p>The method applied is‘word by word’ analysis, where in the first stage the modes of speech, thought and writing representation are identified; in the next stage their interaction with authorial context is described. The modes of speech are classified and differentiated by combining the classifications of representation modes in Serbian and English (Leech and Short 2007; Semino and Short 2004; Kovačević 2013)</p><p>The results of the analysis prove that Jane Austen employs the following modes to repоrt speech, thought and writing: indirect speech/thought/ writing, narrator’s report of speech act/ thought act/writing act, expressive indirect speech/thought, free indirect speech/thought, direct speech (monologue, dialogue, polylogue), free direct speech, line of dialogue, fragmental quote, hypothetical speech, direct thought, free direct thought, direct writing, embedded speech/thought.</p><p>Predominantly, the line of interaction between authorial speech and direct speech involves the former being parenthetically embedded into foregrounded direct speech, amalgamating with the free indirect thought/speech or having as an attachment a ”package” of different embedded modes of speech/ thought/writing representation.</p><p>Primarily indirect thought, free indirect thought, direct thought, and free direct thought are the modes employed to characterise Elinor Dashwood, while on the other side the modes of direct speech, free direct speech, free indirect speech and direct writing combined with numerous mimetic markers prevail in depicting her sister Marianne. It is through the stylistically effective transitions between these modes and their interaction with the authorial context that the total antithetical effect regarding the sense and sensibility principles is obtained on the syntactic-stylistic level.</p> ER -