ON THE TEXTUAL REALIZATION AND INTERPRETATION OF LISTS IN CONTEMPORARY PROSE TEXT: THE CASE OF SIMON MAWER’S THE GLASS ROOM
ON THE TEXTUAL REALIZATION AND INTERPRETATION OF LISTS IN CONTEMPORARY PROSE TEXT: THE CASE OF SIMON MAWER’S THE GLASS ROOM

Author(s): Jolana Kaštovská
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: listing; enumeration; text linguistics; literary prose text; CDA;
Summary/Abstract: The proposed paper reports on the current use of lists and enumeration in literary fiction. The first part presents authentic samples of lists, focusing on the creative realizations of lists which largely depart from the simple example – men, women and children (after Halliday & Hasan 1976) and on the ‘iconic’ lists of three items (cf. Quirk et al. 1985). The second part introduces semantic interpretations of selected samples of the lists in order to point out the discrepancy between exemplifying and enumerating as defined in Jeffries (2010). Although lists and enumeration may be generally considered rather peripheral cohesive devices in the mainstream texts, particularly literary fiction, they may link larger chunks of text and contribute to the overall organization and structure of text as they do in text colonies (cf. Hoey 1986, 2003 [2001]).

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