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In Melville’s Moby Dick and George Eliot’s Adam Bede, twosermons are delivered, which interrupt the narrative line anddisrupt its conventional template. A minor character in the former,viz., Father Mapple, and a secondary character, a woman Quakerpreacher,viz., Dinah in the latter, do the speaking. The paperattempts to define and outline the characteristics specific tobehavioural instances that happen to embed in narrative discoursein pursuit of a more universal taxonomy germane to behaviouraldiscourse in general. The sermons disturb the narrative flow as they formally deviate from the norms of narration since such features like mood/modality, clause structure, tense, etc, operate to set them apart. Upon the analysis of the two behavioural instances, results come out in support of a behavioural template that can tentatively account for the behavioural discourse in English. Behavioural/hortatory distinctive constructions are outlined and analyzed in search for a hortatory template and thematic interpretation

Taxonomy , Behavioural Discourse , Linguistic Investigation , Strategies , Preaching , Moby Dick , Adam Bede

2007

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