Adjusting Syntactic Complexity as a Storytelling Strategy:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Young jun Jang Joo yeon Nam
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제81호, 261~283쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.12.01

영문 초록

This paper focuses on how to retell a story for different target readers/ audiences. When retelling/rewriting a given story, various strategies are involved. Adjusting syntactic complexity is one of the various factors when a story is to be retold. This paper investigates what strategies are involved in order to adjust the syntactic complexity, by analyzing three versions of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Simply counting the number of complex sentences such as relative clauses, for example, would not be an appropriate way of measuring syntactic complexity. Based on the investigation results reported on in this paper, we found that a storyteller and/or a reteller of a story considers various factors including linguistic complexity, cognitive development, parsing ability, cultural background, as well as other reading- related experiences.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Object and Method

3. Findings and Discussion

4. Summary and Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

syntactic complexity retelling relative pronoun Alice’s adventures in Wonderland storytelling