Investigations into Narrative Structures

Contents: Peter Hühn: Reading Poetry as Narrative: Towards a Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poems - Peter Kastberg: Instructive Narration - Narrative Instruction: On some Narrative Aspects of an Instruction Manual - Wolfgang Lörscher: Discourse and Conversation Analysis: The British and the American Perspective - Albrecht Neubert: The Narration of Translation - Hartmut Stöckl: From Space to Time into Narration - Cognitive and Semiotic Perspectives on the Narrative Potential of Visually Structured Text - Christian Todenhagen: "And" Capitalized in Written Narratives - Martin Trautwein: A Unified Approach to the (Re-)Construction of Temporal Sequences in Narrative Texts - Frank Austermühl: 'Creating Hope' - Narrative Structures in Bill Clinton's Rhetoric - Bernhard Diensberg: Narrative Structures in William Langland's Piers Plowman - Horst W. Drescher/Wolfgang Thiele: Scots Philosopher Meets Swiss Protestant Clergyman in France: Story of La Roche - Gottfried Graustein: Nominal Complexity and Variation - Andrea Lerner: (E)merging Stories - Clausdirk Pollner: Draculanguage: Varieties of English in Bram Stoker's Novel - Ingrid Schäfer/Astrid Thiele: Narrative Characteristics of the Russian Bylina - Elmar Schenkel: Unwritten Texts: H.G. Wells's Exploration of Narrative in his Early Essays - Harriet Spiegel: A Twelfth Century Rape Narrative and its Transformations - Günter Weise: Narrative Transformations: The Case of "Little Red Riding-Hood" - Klaus H. Schmidt: Resonance, Resistance, Real-Life Encounters: (Narrative) Boundary-Crossing in the Early American Contact Zone.

The Editors: Christian Todenhagen is Professor of English at California State University, Chico. His special research interest is the semantic interpretation of text from a linguistic and psycholinguistic point of view.
Wolfang Thiele was Professor of Applied Linguistics (in particular English) at the University of Leipzig. His research interests are English grammar and text linguistics.