Psycholinguistics

place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time .

Jadwiga Uchman The Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics

A Study of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

Berlin, 2021 . 234 pp . Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance. Historical Narratives. Theater. Public Life. Vol. 27

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The monograph deals with chosen aspects of modern drama based on the output of three playwrights . It discusses the works of Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard in reference to their employment of the grotesque and the theatre of the absurd . Elements of the grotesque appear in political dramas of all three playwrights . While Beckett does not shy away from absurdity in his plays, some of the early dramas of Pinter and Stoppard present a general existential condition of man, even though their strictly political plays are basically realistic in respect to form, yet satirical in their content . Most of the political plays discussed portray the absurdity of totalitarian countries, stemming from the tragicomic discrepancy between what the authorities are saying they are doing and their actual actions . Christiane Bongartz• Jacopo Torregrossa (eds.) What’s in a Narrative? Variation in Storytelling at the Interface Between Language and Literacy

Berlin, 2021 . 242 pp ., 20 fig . b/w, 19 tables . Inquiries in Language Learning. Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Vol. 27

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Research on narrative production plays a central role in linguistics, psycholinguistics and language acquisition . Narrative elicitation allows researchers to investigate specific linguistic structures and the processes involved in their acquisition in an ecological way . This book provides methodological remarks on how to approach research on narratives, identifying factors that underlie variation in narrative production, including the type of narrative task, cross-linguistic differences, learners’ literacy and cognitive development and the narrative practices in society . The volume features contributions on theoretical and methodological aspects of research on narratives from 16 researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and developmental psychology .