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A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. 144–155

Chapter 7
Comparisons of writing presentation in PREST and PAST

This chapter discusses writing presentation in present- and past-tense narrative. In spite of the formal similarities to speech presentation, the frequency of writing presentation in both the PREST and the PAST corpora is much smaller than that of speech presentation. Writing presentation in present-tense narrative in general tends to be more closely tied to the viewpoint of a character. The most frequent category in PREST is NRWA(p), and many examples of this category reflect the characters’ close-up views on what they perceive visually and psychologically.
Article outline
  • 7.1Quantitative overview
  • 7.2Direct forms of writing: FDW and DW
  • 7.3Free Indirect Writing (FIW)
  • 7.4Indirect Writing (IW)
  • 7.5Narrator’s Representation of Writing Acts and a topic (NRWA/NRWAp)
  • 7.6Narrator’s Representation of Writing (NW)
  • 7.7Conclusion
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