Viewpoint Arrangement and Mental Space Configuration: A Cognitive Analysis on Objectivity Construction in Journalistic Narratives

• 作者: LI Gui-dong
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: VIEWPOINT MENTAL space OBJECTIVITY journalistic NARRATIVE
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（3）
• 页码范围: 301-309
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: I

摘要

This paper presents an analysis on how objectivity is discursively constructed in journalistic narratives by drawing on the theories of viewpoint and mental space in Cognitive Linguistics. It is posited that at least three mental spaces are projected by a narrative discourse, i.e., a narrated event space, a narrating space, and a basic space, and the distance between the first two spaces determines the degree of objectivity in the narrative discourse. A schema which represents the configuration of the different spaces is proposed and applied in the analysis of journalistic narratives to explore the strategies of objectivity construction. The analysis reveals that what the different journalistic narratives have in common in the construction of objectivity is to distance the narrated event space and the narrating space with the former being foregrounded in the viewpoint arrangement.