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Linguistic polyphony is an utterance act theory (la linguistique de lâénonciation) and is a French specialty. It deals with the numerous points of view that are likely to be communicated through an utterance. The book introduces utterance act theory and polyphony as such, but most especially focuses on the Scandinavian variant of polyphony, ScaPoLine. ScaPoLine is a formal linguistic theory whose main purpose is to specify the instructions conveyed through linguistic form for the creation of polyphonic meaning. The theoretical introduction is followed by polyphonic analyses of linguistic phenomena such as negation, mood, modality and connectors, and of textual phenomena such as represented discourse and irony. The book suggests how ScaPoLine could offer new insights within cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary studies.
Henning Nølke is Professor of French at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published monographs, anthologies and many articles on French and general linguistics, including Linguistique modulaire (Peeters, 1994) and Le regard du locuteur 1+2 (Kimé, 1993, 2002).
"Over all, Linguistic Polyphony. The Scandinavian Approach: ScaPoLine constitutes an essential reference for linguists, sociolinguists, and literary scholars because it deeply describes a new and innovative approach to polyphony that can effortlessly be adopted within a wide range of disciplines in order to analyse all the voices included within a text." ~ Maria Assunta Ciardullo, University of Calabria, Italy
"To our knowledge, this is the first book in English about linguistic polyphony, a particular branch of French utterance act linguistics. While reading this impressive work may be a challenge to readers with little or no knowledge of the theory of linguistic polyphony, Nølke is a brilliant, educationally-minded author who never fails to introduce, present, explain, and argue for the numerous notions and concepts in the Scandinavian theory of linguistic polyphony, ScaPoLine. [...] the book provides an excellent introduction to ScaPoLine, a theory more than deserving of dissemination and application in the linguistic world. Nølke has made a very good, hugely comprehensive contribution to linguistic polyphony, which may now reach a much larger audience than just Francophones in this new English version. The book draws on many illustrative examples to demonstrate the potential of linguistic polyphony at a sentence level as well as at a textual and discursive level in a very convincing manner. [...]" ~ Merete Birkelund, University of Aarhus, in Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, 2-3 (2018), pp. 301-306
"To our knowledge, this is the first book in English about linguistic polyphony, a particular branch of French utterance act linguistics. While reading this impressive work may be a challenge to readers with little or no knowledge of the theory of linguistic polyphony, Nølke is a brilliant, educationally-minded author who never fails to introduce, present, explain, and argue for the numerous notions and concepts in the Scandinavian theory of linguistic polyphony, ScaPoLine. [...] the book provides an excellent introduction to ScaPoLine, a theory more than deserving of dissemination and application in the linguistic world. Nølke has made a very good, hugely comprehensive contribution to linguistic polyphony, which may now reach a much larger audience than just Francophones in this new English version. The book draws on many illustrative examples to demonstrate the potential of linguistic polyphony at a sentence level as well as at a textual and discursive level in a very convincing manner. [...]" ~ Merete Birkelund, University of Aarhus, in Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, 2-3 (2018), pp. 301-306
Linguists in the Anglos-Saxon tradition interested in understanding the French tradition of linguistic studies, as well as anyone interested in approaches to analysing text and discourse.