Understanding the temporal relations which hold between situations described in a narrative is a highly complex process. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the factors we have to take into account in order to determine the temporal coherence of a narrative discourse. In particular, aspectual information, tense, and world and context knowledge have to be considered and the interplay of all these factors must be specified. German is aspectually speaking an interesting language, because it does not possess a grammaticalised distinction between a perfective and imperfective aspect. In this thesis I examine the German aspectual system and the interaction of the factors which have an influence on the derived temporal relation for short discourse sequences. The analysis is carried out in two steps: First, the aspectual and temporal properties of German are investigated, following the cross-linguistic framework developed by Carlota S. Smith. An account for German is given which emphasises the properties which are peculiar to this language and explains why it has to be treated differently to, for example, English. The main result for the tense used in a narrative text—the Preterite—is that information regarding the end point of a described situation is based on our world knowledge and may be overridden provided context knowledge forces us to do this. Next, the more complex level of discourse is taken into account in order to derive the temporal relations which hold between the described situations. This investigation provides us with insights into the interaction of different knowledge sources like aspectual information as well as world and context knowledge. This investigation of German discourse sequences gives rise to the need for a time logic which is capable of expressing fine as well as coarse (or underspecified) temporal relations between situations. An account is presented to describe exhaustively all conceivable temporal relations within a computationally tractable reasoning system, based on the interval calculus by James Allen. However, in order to establish a coherent discourse for larger sequences, the hierarchical structure of a narrative has to be considered as well. I propose a Tree Description Grammar — a further development of Tree Adjoining Grammars — for parsing the given discourse structure, and stipulate discourse principles which give an explanation for the way a discourse should be processed. I furthermore discuss how a discourse grammar needs to distinguish between discourse structure and discourse processing. The latter term can be understood as navigating through a discourse tree, and reflects the process of how a discourse is comprehended. Finally, a small fragment of German is given which shows how the discourse grammar can be applied to short discourse sequences of four to seven sentences. The conclusion discusses the outcome of the analysis conducted in this thesis and proposes likely areas of future research.

Contrary to common folk and expert theory, the human self is not unitary. There is no Cartesian theatre or homunculus functioning as a metaphorical overlord. Rather, it is an abstractum gleaned from a person�s experiences-a centre of narrative gravity (Dennett 1991). Experiences are a person�s cognisance of her ventures in life from a particular unique perspective. In perspectivising her experiences, the person imputes a certain structure, order, and significance to them. Events are seen as unfolding in a certain inherently and internally coherent way characterised by causality, temporality, or intentionality, etc. In other words, a person�s self emerges out of her innumerable narrativisations of experience, as well as the different protagonist roles she plays in them. Her behaviours in different situations can be understood as different life-narratives being foregrounded, when she is faced with different stimuli different experiences/events present. In real life, self-reflective discourse frequently alludes to a divided, partitive self, and the experiences/behaviours that it can engage in. In academic study, this concept of the divided and narrative-constructivist self is well-represented in disciplines ranging from philosophy (e.g., Dennett 1991, 2005), developmental psychology (e.g., Markus & Nurius 1986; Bruner 1990, 2001; Stern 1994), cognitive psychology (e.g., Hermans & Kempen 1993; Hermans 2002), neuropsychology (e.g. Damasio 1999), psychiatry (e.g., Feinberg 2001), to linguistics (e.g., McNeil 1996; Ochs & Capps 1996; Nair 2003). Depending on the particular theory, however, emphasis is often placed either on its divided or its narrative-constructivist nature. This thesis argues, however, that the two are coexistent and interdependent, and both are essential to the self�s ontology. Its objectives are therefore: (i) to propose a partitioned-narrative model of the self which unifies the two perspectives by positing that the partitioned-representational (Dinsmore 1991) nature of narratives entails the partitioned structure of the self; and (ii) to propose that the partitioned-narrative ontology of the self is what enables and motivates much of our self-reflective discourse and the grammatical resources for constructing that discourse. Partitioning guarantees that a part of the self, i.e., one of its narratives, can be selectively attended to, foregrounded, objectified, and hence talked about. Narrativity provides the contextual guidance and constraints for meaning-construction in such discourse. This claim is substantiated with three application cases: the use of anaphoric reflexives (I found myself smiling); various usages of proper names, including eponyms (the Shakespeare of architecture), eponymic denominal adjectives (a Herculean effort), etc.; and partitive-self constructions which explicitly profile partitioned and selectively focal narratives (That�s his hormones talking). When analysed using the proposed model, these apparently disparate behaviours turn out to share a common basis: the partitioned-narrative self.

Contrary to common folk and expert theory, the human self is not unitary. There is no Cartesian theatre or homunculus functioning as a metaphorical overlord. Rather, it is an abstractum gleaned from a person�s experiences-a centre of narrative gravity (Dennett 1991). Experiences are a person�s cognisance of her ventures in life from a particular unique perspective. In perspectivising her experiences, the person imputes a certain structure, order, and significance to them. Events are seen as unfolding in a certain inherently and internally coherent way characterised by causality, temporality, or intentionality, etc. In other words, a person�s self emerges out of her innumerable narrativisations of experience, as well as the different protagonist roles she plays in them. Her behaviours in different situations can be understood as different life-narratives being foregrounded, when she is faced with different stimuli different experiences/events present. In real life, self-reflective discourse frequently alludes to a divided, partitive self, and the experiences/behaviours that it can engage in. In academic study, this concept of the divided and narrative-constructivist self is well-represented in disciplines ranging from philosophy (e.g., Dennett 1991, 2005), developmental psychology (e.g., Markus & Nurius 1986; Bruner 1990, 2001; Stern 1994), cognitive psychology (e.g., Hermans & Kempen 1993; Hermans 2002), neuropsychology (e.g. Damasio 1999), psychiatry (e.g., Feinberg 2001), to linguistics (e.g., McNeil 1996; Ochs & Capps 1996; Nair 2003). Depending on the particular theory, however, emphasis is often placed either on its divided or its narrative-constructivist nature. This thesis argues, however, that the two are coexistent and interdependent, and both are essential to the self�s ontology. Its objectives are therefore: (i) to propose a partitioned-narrative model of the self which unifies the two perspectives by positing that the partitioned-representational (Dinsmore 1991) nature of narratives entails the partitioned structure of the self; and (ii) to propose that the partitioned-narrative ontology of the self is what enables and motivates much of our self-reflective discourse and the grammatical resources for constructing that discourse. Partitioning guarantees that a part of the self, i.e., one of its narratives, can be selectively attended to, foregrounded, objectified, and hence talked about. Narrativity provides the contextual guidance and constraints for meaning-construction in such discourse. This claim is substantiated with three application cases: the use of anaphoric reflexives (I found myself smiling); various usages of proper names, including eponyms (the Shakespeare of architecture), eponymic denominal adjectives (a Herculean effort), etc.; and partitive-self constructions which explicitly profile partitioned and selectively focal narratives (That�s his hormones talking). When analysed using the proposed model, these apparently disparate behaviours turn out to share a common basis: the partitioned-narrative self.

M.A. / This study explores the narratives of six women who were subjected to peer abuse, or bullying, during their school years and attempts to discover the legacy of such persecution. The literature on bullying is discussed together with gender differences in the expression of bullying, various hypotheses about these differences, and the importance of peer relationships during childhood and adolescence. The process of enquiry is embedded in a social constructionist perspective, in particular within a narrative frame, and uses narrative analysis of the content of participants’ stories to elicit common themes. Themes that emerged relate mainly to participants’ social interaction. Use of a variety of defensive techniques in social settings, vigilance extending to hypervigilance, inability to trust, inability to accept from others, social anxiety, wariness around females and self-esteem issues surfaced. Other manifestations of distress, for example depression and loneliness, are not experienced by all participants. Some of the discourses around bullying that may inform participants’ stories and the researcher’s interpretations are explored. Similarities to other forms of abuse and psychological trauma are considered, for example loss of memory, hypervigilance and emotional numbing. The implications for therapy are considered, together with the importance of peer relationships in childhood and adolescence. The need for unequivocal adult intervention in preventing peer abuse is emphasised.

The applicability of trauma studies within an examination of postcolonial literature has been a contested topic for scholars in both fields. Additionally, scholarship regarding Amitav Ghosh’s postcolonial science fiction novel The Calcutta Chromosome encourages various readings of the novel but does not currently offer a cohesive examination of all its thematic disciplines and stylistic elements. Through an examination of this postcolonial novel, I will provide a more holistic reading of the novel through an application of trauma studies that explores its representation of the internal postcolonial conflict regarding Western and non-Western historiographies. My analysis will focus on the lexical, character, and narrative levels of the novel through its dominant medical, technological, postcolonial, and political themes for inclusions of Caruth’s aporia related to the manifestation of trauma in literature.

In the study of Narratology, theorists focus on not only the narrative but also the narrator. This is the Who telling the What. While there are many philosophical views regarding authorial intent, and differing opinions as to "who" the narrator is and the many forms the narrator can take, filmed narrative complicates matters even further. For the purpose of this project I will seek to place a new definition on the latent yet prominent role of the true narrator of filmed narratives--money. Due to the complex nature of the film medium, I recognize that film criticism and the discussion of money can be applied to the many and varied aspects of film making, including but not limited to film as art, film as commodity, film genres, film styles, etc. However, I will be restricting my discussions of the role of money in film making at its most simplistic levels: (i) The fact that money prescribes the very presence of an image on film, and (ii) How money influences the narrative represented by those images.

This thesis traces the career of the prolific eighteenth-century author Eliza Haywood through narratological analysis of some of her key works. It contributes to the new wave of Haywood criticism that is moving away from the thematic, gender based focus that has dominated discussion of her oeuvre since her critical rediscovery in the 1980s. My narratological method demonstrates how understanding at a formal and thematic level is enhanced by the employment of theoretical narrative paradigms. Narratology is interested in the relationship between the events of a narrative (story) and how these events are presented (text). I utilize the narratological terminology of Gérard Genette because it is narrative discourse, rather than the mere events of a story, that provides the basis for a meaningful discussion concerning matters of presentation. Making the topic of narrative discourse central to the study requires analysis of voice, point of view, speech, and temporality, as it covers the ways in which the story is told. Throughout her career, Haywood manipulates these narrative features so as to create inventive texts that adapt to the changing trends of the literary marketplace. Key topics of discussion include Haywood s continuous but developing use both of the embedded narrative and anachronies; the differing levels of intrusion created by her narrators employment of metanarrative commentary; and her progressive use of metalepsis: from her inclusion of simple scene changes in her earlier work, to her emphatic use of explicit diegetic interruptions in her later work that mirror those utilised by Henry Fielding. The thesis follows a chronological structure and is historically and bibliographically informed. This approach enables the thesis to provide extended comparison of Haywood s narrative choices with those of her main forebears and contemporaries, especially Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Henry Fielding.

The thesis introduces the problems facing Arab novels written by women from the Arabian Peninsula, taking into account the socio-cultural aspects of the region. The thesis closely reads and analyzes selected novels by writers from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman, in order to find common perspectives among authors on key issues affecting the status of women in society. By using the themes and characters as source for analysis, the thesis tries to answer the question about whether the female Arab writers tend to confirm the patriarchal order, or on the contrary they reject it. At the same time, the thesis analyzes the attitudes of women novelists towards the traditional values of their own society, in contrast with modern values. The thesis takes into account the major social, cultural and economic changes rapidly transforming this region in a very short period of time. These transformations have inevitably brought about substantial intergenerational conflicts within traditional families.

Este trabalho de pesquisa propõe um percurso pela sistematização do discurso indireto livre: uma observação, uma interpretação e uma análise de suas manifestações no romance Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert. A partir desses objetivos, apresentamos um exemplo de identificação de formas dotadas de fontes enunciativas múltiplas neste romance. Primeiramente a abordagem linguística serve-nos para identificação e descrição do fenômeno, em seguida passamos à análise literária, que se concentra no exame de discursos indiretos livres em um excerto específico, focalizando a questão da transposição temporal. A abordagem do discurso indireto livre aqui presente ainda contempla as suas decorrências em outros níveis narrativos, tais como: a representação, as vozes, o papel do leitor e a expressão da subjetividade no discurso do outro. / This research proposes a trajectory through the systematization of the free indirect speech: an observation, an interpretation and an analysis of its manifestations in the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. From these objectives, we present examples of multiple enunciation sources identified in the forms of this novel. First of all, the linguistic approach is useful in the identification and description of the phenomenon; then, we start a literary analysis, which emphasizes the study of free indirect speech in a specific excerpt, focusing in the question of time transposition. This approach of free indirect speech also takes into account its consequences in other narrative levels, such as: the representation, the voices, the role of the reader and the subjective expression in the others discourse.

Apresentamos resultados de pesquisa em que investigamos se os sujeitos-estudantes dos anos iniciais, mais especificamente do 5º ano do ensino fundamental, utilizam o discurso narrativo escrito para falarem de si, de seus sentimentos, de emoções, frustrações e desejos, utilizando-o para tecer a subjetividade. O discurso narrativo escrito é comum nas práticas pedagógicas escolares que, na maioria das vezes, é empregado para cumprir um currículo ou proposta que não contemplam quem escreve e o que se escreve, mas como escreve, no sentido do assujeitamento às estreitas malhas das normas ortográficas e gramaticais. Para compreendermos, então, o funcionamento do discurso narrativo escrito dos/nos sujeitos estudantes, tomamos o discurso enquanto efeito de sentidos, considerando as condições de produção no momento em que reverberaram. O arcabouço teórico que sustenta nossos estudos está centrado na Análise de Discurso pêcheuxtiana, na Psicanálise freudo-lacaniana e nas Ciências da Educação. Apresentamos nos capítulos iniciais alguns conceitos fundamentais às três áreas do conhecimento, no intuito de compreendermos o movimento do sujeito em relação à escrita, e de modo específico, a escrita de si. Para a realização da pesquisa, elaboramos uma atividade didático-pedagógica tendo como finalidade a coleta de narrativas escritas por 43 sujeitos-estudantes do 5º ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública situada em uma pequena cidade do interior paulista. Após a atividade supracitada, as narrativas foram lidas e transcritas, culminando na seleção de três narrativas que constituem nosso corpus de análise. As análises das narrativas escritas reverberaram marcas e indícios de a) que em condições favoráveis de produção em que as atividades propostas sejam coerentes, criativas e desafiadoras, os estudantes são levados a se deslocarem e a se posicionarem como intérpretes-historicizados, ou seja, atribuem e produzem sentidos a partir da memória discursiva e, a partir desse deslocamento, reverberam marcas de autoria nas produções; b) atividades linguísticas, fundamentadas teoricamente e baseadas em portadores de textos diferenciados proporcionam aos sujeitos-estudantes a aprendizagem de diferentes gêneros discursivos, instigando-os a perguntas, relatos de experiências, exposição de suas dúvidas a respeito dos mais diversos assuntos e temas tratados em sala de aula e outras formulações, o que lhes permite ocupar o lugar de sujeitos que se relacionam prazerosamente com o processo polissêmico de linguagem, contribuindo para que entendam a língua em seu funcionamento; c) o discurso narrativo é uma alternativa para que os sujeitos-estudantes falem de si, de fantasias, angústias, medo e desejos, expressando assim a subjetividade, condições basilares para que tenham vez e se façam ouvir em sala de aula, no contexto escolar e na sociedade. / This study presents results of an investigation on whether subject-students from lower elementary school 5th graders use written narrative discourse to speak about themselves, their feelings, emotions and frustrations, using it to build up their subjectivity. Written narrative discourse is a common teaching practice, mostly used to follow a syllabus or lesson plan which do not fulfil those who write, nor the theme. Rather, those activities focus on how the text is written, subjected to the constraints of grammar and spelling rules. In order to understand how written narrative discourse works in/from the subject-students, discourse is analyzed as effect of meanings, considering the conditions at the moment it has been produced. Thus, the order of discourse effect of meanings between interlocutors is materialized in the text, correspondent to the discourse, but not closed in on itself. It remains as a symbolic object open to different readings and meanings. We agree with Orlandi (2012) to a conception of text as support to the historicity in which subjects leave their traces through displacement of meanings, paraphrasing and articulating within ploys of opposing discursive formations, the presence of necessary absence, inevitable bond with alterity. Ideology is defined within this displacement of meanings, so as the work of interpreting and analyzing. This work is grounded on the theory of discourse analysis, by the French Philosopher Michel Pêcheux, on Freuds and Lacans psychoanalysis, and on the social-historical approach of literacy in the Science of Education. Those three areas of knowledge provide us with means to grasp the subjects relationship with writing, especially self-writing. The corpus was formed from three written narratives selected from one activity with 5th graders of a school in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The analysis of the written narratives indicates three factors: a) favorable conditions within coherent, creative and challenging activities lead students to positioning themselves as historicized interpreters, that is, they assign and attribute meaning based on discursive memory. From that displacement of meaning they reverberate signs of authorship in their production; b) language-focused activities, theory-grounded and goodquality text provide subject-students with opportunities to learn about different discursive genres. Such texts lead students to questions, self-expression and discussions about the most various topics. Language and its polysemy are rediscovered with pleasure by those subject students, who explore and understand it better; c) the narrative discourse for subject-students speak about themselves, their feelings and thoughts, expressing their subjectivity. Those are basic conditions for them to voice their opinion in the classroom and in society.