International Journal of Literary Linguistics
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<p>The International Journal of Literary Linguistics (IJLL) is an open-access, peer-review journal published by Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany) that is dedicated to the publication of original research at the interface of literary studies and linguistics. The journal provides an innovative forum for articles participating in the recent reshaping of the field of literary linguistics under the influence of pragmatics, functional linguistics and cognitive studies. It aims at contributing to a new, dialogic understanding of literary production and reception. The journal invites contributions from scholars working on different languages and literatures.</p> <p>Submissions to the journal may be concerned with (but are not restricted to) the following topics: Textuality, intertextuality, dialogism, narratology, stylistics, genre, in spoken, written and multimodal texts (and in their adaptations into other media). We are also interested in publishing special issues edited by guest editors as well as reviews of scholarly books of relevance.</p> <p>Publication language is English.</p> <p>The work of the editorial team is supported by an advisory board comprising some of the most eminent scholars in the field of literary linguistics.</p> <p>If you are interested in submitting an article, please go to the <a href="/index.php/ijll/about">About the Journal</a> page to find out more.</p> <p>There are no submission or article processing charges.</p>University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germanyen-USInternational Journal of Literary Linguistics2194-5594<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /></a>Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore
https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/140
<p>In a similar way to dramatic performances and plays, song lyrics establish a complex discourse structure whereby listeners are placed in a position to overhear ‘the pretence of a conversation constructed to convey the performer’s meaning’ (Nahajec 2019: 25; see also Short 1996: 169). In Swift’s songwriting, listeners are positioned not only to eavesdrop on the narratives presented, but are also invited to conceptualise and enact particular roles and scenarios in the discourse. This paper offers a stylistic analysis of songwriting and narrative structure across Swift’s oeuvre to identify how disnarration strategies are used to build stories in her two sister albums written and produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, <em>folklore </em>(2020) and <em>evermore </em>(2020)<em>.</em> Specifically, this study examines how disnarration characterises the albums’ narrators, establishes narrator-narratee relationships and invites listeners to adopt a participatory role in the meaning-making process. Through close analysis of four songs across the two albums, this paper builds on developing studies of the stylistics of songwriting (see West 2019), and argues that disnarration strategies foreground particular themes within the discourse, such as nostalgia, wistfulness and regret, and contribute to the fictionalisation and self-aware storytelling characteristic of these albums’ storyworlds.</p>Chloe HarrisonHelen Ringrow
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2022-11-062022-11-0611110.15462/ijll.v11i1.140