psychonarration
/ˌsaɪkoʊnærəˈeɪʃən/
psychonarration noun: a narrative technique used by a narrator to represent a character's consciousness or inner thoughts, often characterized by smooth transitions between the narrator's own commentary and transcriptions of the character's internal mental states.
Noun
psychonarration (countable and uncountable, plural psychonarrations)
- A narrative technique used by a narrator to represent a character's consciousness or inner thoughts, often characterized by smooth transitions between the narrator's own commentary and transcriptions of the character's internal mental states.
- In examining the linguistic relationship between narrated monologue, psychonarration, and quoted monologue, Cohn identifies the distinctive grammatical features which differentiate narrated monologue from the other two modes: tense and person separate it from quoted monologue, the absence of mental...1998, Adre Marshall, The Turn Of The Mind: Constituting Consciousness in Henry James, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 67
- Lawrence's psychonarrations of nonverbal states differ from Joyce's and Woolf's inner monologues of verbal thought.2005, Charles Michael Burack, D. H. Lawrence’s Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader, Palgrave Macmillan New York, →ISBN
Forms of psychonarration
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Origin of psychonarration
From psycho- (“mind”) + narration, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) and Latin narrātiō (“narrative, narration”).
Questions about psychonarration
- What does psychonarration mean?
- Psychonarration means a narrative technique used by a narrator to represent a character's consciousness or inner thoughts, often characterized by smooth transitions between the narrator's own commentary and transcriptions of the character's internal mental states.
- What part of speech is psychonarration?
- Psychonarration is a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychonarration?
- Psychonarration is pronounced /ˌsaɪkoʊnærəˈeɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of psychonarration?
- The plural of psychonarration is psychonarrations.
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