psychonarrations

Noun

psychonarration (countable and uncountable, plural psychonarrations)

1. 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