Subjective stance and the analysis of lyrical discourse

• Autores: Enrique Cámara Arenas
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Susan Hunston and Geof Thompson's "Evaluation in Text" (2000), a number of authors devise methods and design the kind of concepts that would help us make explicit the presence and subtle workings of the subjective import in any act of verbal communication. However, few literary texts are explored in this work, and no instance of lyrical discourse is analyzed. Given the importance of the subjective element in poetry, and taking advantage of the light shed by this group of researchers on the encoding of opinion, the present contribution constitutes a step towards the systematic discussion of subjective stance in lyrical discourse. In the course of my article it should become clear that existing methods need to be complemented with an understanding of common sense and, especially, of the role of empathy at work in the reading of lyrical texts. The process of endowing a lyrical subject with a subjective stance, separating it from us, and re-integrating it through understanding, requires pragmatic competence as well as the emotional involvement which accompanies empathic processes.