ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 brought together J.T. Fraser’s model of worlds of different temporalities and M.A.K. Halliday’s model of language and construed worlds of experience to describe a model of six narrative worlds and the story that may be told of each. Chapter 8 now clarifies the recognition of each temporal thread/story and its mode of narrative coherence, taking examples from different historical periods of English (and in Old, Middle and Modern English). The stories are those of: sociotemporality, construing the human experience of the social world, with equative sequence (like and unlike); nootemporality, construing the human experience of the world of consciousness, with associative sequence; biotemporality, construing the human experience of the lived biological world, with chronological sequence; eotemporality construing an existent world, with reversible sequence (multiple points of view); prototemporality construing an uncertain world with indeterminate sequence; atemporality construing a chaotic world with incoherent sequence. Texts/authors discussed include Beowulf, Malory, Defoe, Richardson, Trollope, Woolf, Pynchon, Auster and others.
