@inbook{9cb532fc6ee34c0891f209cd227a390f,
title = "A text-world account of temporal world-building strategies in Spanish and English",
abstract = "Text World Theory (Werth 1999; Gavins 2007) is a cognitive stylistic model that aims to describe how discourse participants create a mental representation of language in use. First designed for the analysis of individual texts, this chapter demonstrates how it can also be used in the cross-linguistic analysis of narrative strategies. This chapter is based on a wider research project which applied Text World Theory to a comparable corpus of {\textquoteleft}frog story{\textquoteright} narratives revealing differences between the ways in which Spanish and English speakers construct the {\textquoteleft}same{\textquoteright} narrative text-world. The focus here is on the narrators{\textquoteright} temporal world-building strategies only, as choices in tense were fundamental in laying the foundations for other world-building strategies. The results reveal interesting cross-linguistic and dialectal differences in temporal world-building strategies and point to uses of tenses for non-temporal means.",
keywords = "dialect, English, frog stories, corpus, Spanish, spoken narrative, temporaility, tense, Text World Theory",
author = "Jane Lugea",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1075/pbns.262.10lug",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027256676",
series = "Pragmatics and Beyond",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing",
pages = "245--272",
editor = "Manuela Romano and Porto, {Maria Dolores}",
booktitle = "Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction",
address = "Netherlands",
}