The language of an inanimate narrator

We show by means of a corpus study that the language used by the inanimate first person narrator in the novel Specht en zoon deviates from what we would expect on the basis of the fact that the narrator is inanimate, but at the same time also differs from the language of a human narrator in the nove...

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Main Authors: Trompenaars Thijs, Hogeweg Lotte, Stoop Wessel, de Hoop Helen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-12-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0034