Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of the Single Story

representation

language?

How do we make things mean?

(3 different ways of looking at meaning)

reflective/mimetic approach

intentional approach

constructionist approach

also examples!

Discourse

narrative transmission

author – narrator

reader - narratee

narrator - narrative instance (also narrative function)

narrator – focalizer (Genette)- reflector (Stanzel)

extradiegetic vs. intradiegetic narrator

homodiegetic vs. heterodiegetic narrator

overt vs. covert narrator