The construction of ethos in the opening chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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ethos enunciation, enunciator, coenunciator tone.Abstract
from the American and British armies. The young Kurt Vonnegut, who was a prisoner of the German, was a survivor of the attack. His primary intention had been to reflect the event into a novel, but it took him twenty four years to achieve it. When, in 1969, he published Slaughterhouse-Five, he had to overcome several narrative obstacles. One of these is going to be revised In this brief presentation, guided by the research of Dominique Maingueneau and Oswald Ducrot: the construction of the ethos in the first chapter of the novel.Downloads
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Ducrot, Oswald (1984). El decir y lo dicho. Buenos Aires. Hachette.
Maingueneau, Dominique (1999). Ethos, scénographie, incorporation, en: Amossy, R. (dir.) Images de soi dans le discours, Lausanne-Paris, Delachaux et Neistlé, pp.75-100, Traduc. al español de Elvira Ezcurra: Ethos, escenografía, incorporación, Cap 3, 2006.
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Vonnegut, Kurt (1974). Madre noche. Buenos Aires. Ed. Sudamericana.
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