Getting Focalization into Focus

Nelles, William

doi:10.2307/1772622

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“…Besides, the writer focalizes the voiceless child in order to voice his message demonizing the disease. Nelles (1990) states that a writer uses certain form of techniques to present information by depersonalizing him/herself and focalizing other characters. Likewise, the writer is lacking definable personality in the above short narrative.…”

Section: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Covid-19 Alluded To Religionmentioning

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Rethinking the Past and Defining the Present

2020

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<p><em>The purpose of this study is to unearth the landscape of social media and analyse the contents. Contents of social media, in Ethiopia, are varying over the course of changes in politics, health, socio-economic conditions of the country. Some of the contents are reflected in the forms of narratives, comments, briefings, anecdotes, and verses to list a few. Contents changing the way people interact with each other and share information, personal messages, and opinions about situations, objects, and past experiences- rethinking the past, themes are linked to the present and define the present Ethiopia. In order to attain the stated objective, the researchers developed critical discourse analysis as a research methodology and adapted Norman Fairclough’s model of Analysis as a theoretical framework. Most social media texts are short online conversational posts or comments that do not contain enough information for a full textual analysis. Therefore, using purposive sampling six excerpts were collected from various discourses of the social media platforms, particularly Facebook, Facebook messenger, and YouTube. Based on the contexts of the discourses, the analysis was categorized thematically. The study concluded that social media users used the platform as a means to reflect both the status quo of the past and linking to the current COVID-19 and its socio-economic impacts. COVID-19 is depicted as a disease, resulting from human wrongdoings, very dangerous which is deadly even to Satan. It is also depicted as a warrior, an extremely hungry predator looking for its prey, ready to eat up human being ravenous without a need for proper chewing. </em></p>

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Section: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Covid-19 Alluded To Religionmentioning

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Rethinking the Past and Defining the Present

2020

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“…and "who speaks" (Genette 1980, 186)-has itself been the source of a great deal of debate and confusion (see Nelles 1990 andFludernik 2001). And although focalization has been a highly attractive concept for scholars of novels and films, nobody has yet made a strong case for its application to popular music.…”

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From Me To You

Baileyshea

2014

MTO

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Scholars have long recognized the complexities of song personas in popular music. Less well recognized is the way that the deployment of pronouns in pop song lyrics can create sudden shifts in the various currents of musical meaning. Although songs often commit to a single point of view, it is quite common for songs to feature complex shifts in discourse, sometimes aligned with important changes in the music. This paper addresses an especially important pattern, a shift from distance to intimacy.

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“…Bal addresses this by expanding the narrator concept (as do others, e.g., William Nelles [1990]), into a more nuanced bipartite structure containing a "focalizer" possibility as well. In other words, a piece may have a narrator who is also the focalizer (but who tends to be called simply the narrator); it may have only a focalizer who is not narrating; or it may have two subjectivities: a focalizer who sees all and, simultaneously, a narrator.…”

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“I”-Tunes: Multiple Subjectivities and Narrative Method in Computer Music

Hoffman

2012

Computer Music Journal

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Representational aspects of a computer music composition may forge a perspectival conduit into the music, partly through conceptual boundary structures described here as "frames." The perspectival conduit includes the illusion of subjectivities inside the music and is called here the work's "point of view." These internal subjectivities shape a listener's sense of self, including role, location, and identity. Where and how does the given sound world let the listener in, conceptually, to interact with the work's point of view? This essay considers musical discourse that draws on literary theories of narrative, but it also examines techniques that derive directly from computer music's distinctive features and capabilities.

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Getting Focalization into Focus

Cited by 32 publications

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Rethinking the Past and Defining the Present

A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Rethinking the Past and Defining the Present

From Me To You

“I”-Tunes: Multiple Subjectivities and Narrative Method in Computer Music

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