@article {306,
	title = {Introduction: Approaches to Fictional Dialogue},
	journal = {International Journal of Literary Linguistics},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2016},
	abstract = {<p><span style="color: $\#$333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This special issue is devoted to a cross-disciplinary investigation of a specific literary phenomenon, fictional dialogue. Fictional dialogue is used to refer to passages of character-character conversation within a literary text. More specifically, the articles of the issue deal with fictional dialogue as a narrative mode in prose fiction. The issue aims to engender an appreciation and a better understanding of the workings of dialogue by drawing on the insights and methods from both literary studies and linguistics. These methods include a rhetorical-ethical approach to narrative, cognitive and {\textquotedblleft}natural{\textquotedblright} narratology, the study of everyday conversational storytelling, and Conversation Analysis (CA). Combining these methods helps us to understand that while dialogue is a central means to depict character-character relationships it also serves other levels of communication in a narrative and thus contributes to the reader{\textquoteright}s comprehension of the narrative design{\textquoteright}s rhetorical and ethical dimensions. The articles also suggest that while understanding dialogue depends partly on the reader{\textquoteright}s experiences of real-life conversation, the interpretation of dialogue is determined by the overall design of a literary text and the historically changing conventions.</span></p>},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v5i2.56},
	url = {http://www.ijll.uni-mainz.de/index.php/ijll/article/view/56},
	author = {Koivisto, Aino and Nyk{\"a}nen, Elise}
}
