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9780198236498

Narrative Comprehension A Discourse Perspective

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    9780198236498

  • ISBN10:

    0198236492

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-06-19
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

There has so far been relatively little research by cognitive linguists on the comprehension of narrative texts. This book draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence to explore how readers construct and maintain mental representations of fictional characters and contexts, and goes on to consider the implications of cognitive modelling for grammatical theory and a literary-linguistic model of narrative text-types.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: COGNITION AND DISCOURSE 3(100)
1. Narrative Comprehension: Text, Knowledge, and Inference-Making
3(18)
2. Key Topics in Text-Processing Research
21(53)
3. A Discourse Perspective: Understanding Full, Real Texts
74(29)
PART TWO: NARRATIVE STRUCTURE AND PROCESSING 103(94)
4. Creating Fictional Contexts
103(30)
5. Modifying, Switching, and Recalling Contexts
133(42)
6. Characters and Contexts
175(22)
PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS: LINGUISTIC THEORY AND NARRATIVE THEORY 197(79)
7. Mental Representations, Inference-Making, and Reference Theory
197(39)
8. Distinguishing Narrative Text Types
236(31)
9. Summary
267(9)
Bibliography 276(35)
Author Index 311(3)
Subject Index 314

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