Urzha A. V. The foreground and background in the narrative text: Narratology, linguistics, cognitive studies, translation studies. Moscow: FLINTA, 2022. 288 p.: Book review

Abstract

The book under review offers a critical analysis of the existing Russian and foreign research on narratology devoted to the phenomenon of textual grounding, principles and means of forming the foreground and background in the narrative text, speech and compositional techniques for managing readers’ attention in original and translated narratives.

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Publication history

• Received: June 6, 2023.
• Published: August 14, 2023.

Keywords

• когнитивные исследования
• перевод
• нарратив
• первый план и фон
• cognitive studies
• translation
• narrative
• foreground and background

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