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"Harald Weinrich's classic book, long overdue for English translation, offers a groundbreaking study of time and tense. Arguing that tenses indicate not time in itself but the speaker's relation to the utterance, Weinrich distinguishes narrative tenses from tenses of speech or commentary and explores the different ways in which they function in various European languages and works of literature."--Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric
A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses--that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or writer--Tempus surveys a dazzling array of ancient and modern texts from famous authors as well as casual speakers of German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and English, with a final chapter extending the observations to Greek, Russian, and world languages. A classic in German and long available in many other languages, Tempus launched a new discipline, text linguistics, and established a unique career that was marked by precise observation, sensitive cultural outreach, and practical engagement with the situation of migrants. Weinrich's robust and lucid close readings of famous and little-known authors from all the major languages of western Europe expand our literary horizons and challenge our linguistic understanding. Harald Weinrich (1927-2022) was Professor of German as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and held the Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Collège de France. He is the author of On Borrowed Time: The Art and Economy of Living with Deadlines (2009), The Linguistics of Lying, and Other Essays (2005), and Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting (2004). Jane Brown and Marshall Brown are retired professors of comparative literature at the University of Washington."Harald Weinrich's classic book, long overdue for English translation, offers a groundbreaking study of time and tense. Arguing that tenses indicate not time in itself but the speaker's relation to the utterance, Weinrich distinguishes narrative tenses from tenses of speech or commentary and explores the different ways in which they function in various European languages and works of literature."--Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric
A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses--that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or writer--Tempus surveys a dazzling array of ancient and modern texts from famous authors as well as casual speakers of German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and English, with a final chapter extending the observations to Greek, Russian, and world languages. A classic in German and long available in many other languages, Tempus launched a new discipline, text linguistics, and established a unique career that was marked by precise observation, sensitive cultural outreach, and practical engagement with the situation of migrants. Weinrich's robust and lucid close readings of famous and little-known authors from all the major languages of western Europe expand our literary horizons and challenge our linguistic understanding. Harald Weinrich (1927-2022) was Professor of German as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and held the Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Collège de France. He is the author of On Borrowed Time: The Art and Economy of Living with Deadlines (2009), The Linguistics of Lying, and Other Essays (2005), and Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting (2004). Jane Brown and Marshall Brown are retired professors of comparative literature at the University of Washington.Translators' Note | ix
Introduction | 1
Jane K. Brown and Marshall Brown
1 Tense in Texts | 9
Tense and Time, 9 Text Linguistics, 11 A Preliminary Reflection:
Obstinate Signs, 14 Tense Distribution, 17 Two Tense Groups:
Discussing and Narrating, 22 On the Freedom of the Narrator, 25
2 Discussing-Narrating | 32
Syntax and Communication, 32 Register, 36 Tense in Different
Genres, 42 The World of Discussion, 45 The World of Narrating, 50
Tense in the Language of Children, 55
3 Perspective | 60
Time in Texts, 60 The Future (using French as an example), 64
The Perfekt in German, 69 The Perfect in English, 75 Thornton
Wilder: The Ides of March, 78 The Passé composé in French, 83
The Passato prossimo in Italian, 87 The Perfecto compuesto in
Spanish, 91 Narration, Past, Truth, 96
4 Highlighting | 101
Narrative Highlighting, 101 Narrative Tempo in the Novel, 106
Baudelaire: "Le vieux saltimbanque" (The Old Mountebank), 111
Of the Tense of Death, 117
5 Tense in Novellas and Short Stories: Highlighting vs. Aspect | 121
Maupassant, 121 Pirandello, 126 Unamuno, Darío, Echegaray, 129
Hemingway, 135 Frame Narrative (Boccaccio), 142 Narration in the
Middle Ages, 147 Frame and Highlighting in Modern Stories, 150
6 Tense Transitions 153
Tense in Dialogue, 153
Descartes, Rousseau, and the Sequence of Tenses, 164
7 Tense Metaphors | 171
Tense Metaphors in Texts, 171 Condition and Consequence,
Reality and Unreality, 180
8 Tense Combinations | 186
Tense and Person, 186 Tense and Adverbs, 190 Combined
Transitions, 197 Semi-finite Verbs, 205
9 A Crisis in Narration? | 211
Tense in Old French, 211 Evidence of Language Consciousness in French
Classicism, 217 The Time of Newspapers, 224 Albert Camus: L'étranger,
227 Oral Narration in French, 236 A Parallel: Tense in South-German
Dialects, 244
10 Other Languages-Other Tenses? | 252
Tense in Ancient Greek, 252 Tense in Latin, 256 Whorf, Spengler,
and the Hopi Indians, 264 Toward a New Method of Description, 270
Index | 275
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781531503345 |
| ISBN-10: | 1531503349 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Weinrich, Harald |
| Übersetzung: |
Brown, Jane K
Brown, Marshall |
| Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Harald Weinrich |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.02.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,44 kg |
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