psychonarration

From psycho- (“mind”) +‎ narration, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) and Latin narrātiō (“narrative, narration”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkoʊnærəˈeɪʃən/

psychonarration (countable and uncountable, plural psychonarrations)

1. (narratology) A narrative technique used by a narrator to represent a character's consciousness or inner thoughts, often characterized by smooth transitions between the narrator's own commentary and transcriptions of the character's internal mental states.
   • 1998, Adre Marshall, The Turn Of The Mind: Constituting Consciousness in Henry James‎^[1], Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 67:

     In examining the linguistic relationship between narrated monologue, psychonarration, and quoted monologue, Cohn identifies the distinctive grammatical features which differentiate narrated monologue from the other two modes: tense and person separate it from quoted monologue, the absence of mental verbs (the equivalent in the realm of thought, of inquit phrases in speech) such as "he thought" (and the resulting grammatical independence) separates it from psychonarration.

   • 2005, Charles Michael Burack, D. H. Lawrence’s Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader, Palgrave Macmillan New York, →ISBN:

     Lawrence's psychonarrations of nonverbal states differ from Joyce's and Woolf's inner monologues of verbal thought.

• "psychonarration" in Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts.