Amélie Doche Dialogic Strategies and Outcomes in and Around Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending(2011) : A Linguistic-Stylistic Analysis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCHE Amélie. Dialogic Strategies and Outcomes in and Around Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending(2011) : A Linguistic-Stylistic Analysis, sous la direction de Vanina Jobert-Martini. - Lyon : Université Jean Moulin (Lyon 3), 2020 et Ruth M. Harman. – Lyon : University of Georgia, United States. 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Harman, University of Georgia, United States June 2020 2 [Front-cover photograph] Svankmajer, J. (1982). Les possibilités du dialogue [Film]. Krátký Film Praha. 3 I hear voices everywhere, and dialogical relations between them. Mikhail Bakhtin (1970) 4 Acknowledgements Studying English Language, Literature & Culture at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University has been a truly enriching experience for me. I enrolled in the bachelor’s program six years ago - little did I know then that this would mark the beginning of what I hope will be a lifelong journey. I am very thankful for all the opportunities I have been provided with. I had the chance to spend two years in the United Kingdom and six months in the United States as part of my bachelor and master’s degrees. These stays abroad would not have been possible without the following funding sources, which I would like to thank for their support: the European Union ERASMUS+ mobility grant, the region Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne’s EXPLO’RA SUP grant and the French Government’s Aide à la Mobilité Internationale (AMI) grant. Experiencing Otherness has considerably enhanced my life - I could not be more grateful for that. I am very lucky to have had two wonderful supervisors who provided detailed and constructive feedback on my work. I am particularly indebted to Vanina Jobert-Martini for her support over the past five years and for having given me the time and freedom to explore many different theories before committing to a specific approach. I am very grateful to Ruth Harman for having introduced me to Systemic Functional Linguistics last autumn and for having accepted to join in the supervision. Thank you both for being sources of inspiration. Last but not least, I would like to thank my fellow Lyon 3 friends for all the lively and insightful conversations (pre-, during and post- lockdown), the laughs, and the best pub quizzes. A very special thanks to Alice and Ambrine for having me stay and feeding me cheese quite a few times during railway strikes. 5 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................ 4 Table of Contents ................................................................................................................... 5 General Introduction .............................................................................................................. 7 Chapter I: The Sense of an Ending: A Text-Driven, Reader-Oriented Study of Dialogism 11 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 11 2. Interdiscursive Dialogism: A Study of Intertextual Networks ......................................... 12 2.1 Literature Review ..................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Intertextual References to the Cultural Text ............................................................ 13 2.3 Intertextual References to Literary Texts ................................................................. 17 2.4 The Dialogic Scope of the Intertext: Discourse Worlds........................................... 25 2.5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 29 3. Interlocutive Dialogism: A Stylistic Analysis .................................................................. 30 3.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 30 3.2 Ontology and Metalepsis .......................................................................................... 31 3.3 Corpus-Based Study of Reader-Manipulation ......................................................... 39 4. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 47 Chapter II: A SFL-Based Analysis of Online Book Reviews .............................................. 50 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 50 1.1 Theoretical Frameworks ........................................................................................... 51 1.2 Methods and Materials: Context, Data Collection, and Data Analysis .................... 52 2. Case Study I: Jeremy Allan-Smith ................................................................................... 59 2.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 60 2.2 Projected Clauses ..................................................................................................... 60 2.3 Projecting-Projected Clauses .................................................................................... 62 2.4 Unacknowledged Projections ................................................................................... 64 2.5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 64 3. Case study II: Booklover .................................................................................................. 65 3.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 65 3.2 Projections ................................................................................................................ 65 3.3 Modality and Polarity ............................................................................................... 67 3.4 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 69 6 4. Case study III: Covergirl14 .............................................................................................. 70 4.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 70 4.2 Projections ................................................................................................................ 71 4.3 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 76 5. Perceived Legitimacy - A Critical and Comparative Analysis ........................................ 77 5.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 77 5.2 Ideation - How Is Knowledge Constructed? ............................................................ 78 5.3 Interpersonal – How Is Knowledge Construed?....................................................... 86 5.4 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 89 General Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 92 Index ..................................................................................................................................... 95 Figures .................................................................................................................................. 99 References .......................................................................................................................... 100 Appendix A ........................................................................................................................ 108 Appendix B ........................................................................................................................ 115 Appendix C ........................................................................................................................ 120 Appendix D ........................................................................................................................ 143 7 General Introduction Saussure’s Semiology Bakthin’s dialogic theory