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Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective

Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective


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Despite the current explosion of interest in cognitive linguistics, there has so far been relatively little research by cognitive linguists on narrative comprehension. Catherine Emmott draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence to present a detailed model of how readers build, maintain, and use mental representations of fictional contexts, and how they keep track of characters and contexts within a complex, changing fictional world. The book begins with a summary of current issues in text-processing theory and a discussion of the methodological importance of recognizing the hierarchical structure of discourse. The core of the book explores the significance of contextual monitoring in narrative comprehension and looks particularly at the cognitive demands placed on readers by flashbacks. Later chapters examine the implications of contextual monitoring for reference theory and for a literary-linguistic model of narrative text types. The study focuses on anaphoric pronouns in narratives, assessing the accumulated knowledge required for readers to interpret these key grammatical items. The work has implications for linguistic theory since it questions several long-held assumptions about anaphora, arguing for a `levels of consciousness' model for the processing of referring expressions.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Cognition and Discourse 1: Narrative Comprehension: Text, Knowledge, and Inference-Making 2: Key Topics in Processing Research 3: A Discourse Perspective: Understanding Full, Real Texts Part II: Narrative Structure and Processing 4: Creating Functional Texts 5: Modifying, Switching, and Recalling Texts 6: Characters and Texts Part III: Implications: Linguistic Theory and Narrative Theory 7: Mental Representations, Inference-Making, and Reference Theory 8: Distinguishing Narrative Types 9: Conclusion Bibliography

Review :
`Emmott is a promising young scholar who deserves to have her work widely read.' Journal of Literary Semantics `A major advance in narrative analysis ... the book will be an invaluable resource for discourse analysis, cognitive scientists, and narrative theorists alike.' David Herman, Language `This is a book which a lot of people should read. It has relevant things to say to linguists and psychologists interested in text and discourse analysis, narratologists, stylisticians, literary theorists, reading theorists and those interested in the empirical study of literature and in teaching literacy skills.' Journal of Literary Semantics `Emmott is a promising young scholar who deserves to have her work widely read.' Journal of Literary Semantics


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198238683
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Sub Title: A Discourse Perspective
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198238681
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 510 gr


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