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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.
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Catherine Emmott is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language at University of Glasgow.
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`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
... Emmott's book makes an important contribution to the study of how readers understand narrative texts. Her view of the reading process as the dynamic construction and updating of mental representations is an advance over static constructions of text representation. Her focus on narrative
discourse and real texts is an advance over the study of processing of sentence parts in isolation or artificial laboratory texts./ Tom Trabasso, Dept of Psychology, The University of Chicago, in Journal of Pragmatics, vol 30, 1998.
a new contribution to the study of narrative which makes an explicit attempt to join some of these traditions on a new middle ground, the one of discourse./ I ... can heartily recommend it to researchers from both traditions, Gerard Steen, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Language and
Literature, 1999, Vol 8, no1
David Herman, Language
... Emmott's book makes an important contribution to the study of how readers understand narrative texts. Her view of the reading process as the dynamic construction and updating of mental representations is an advance over static constructions of text representation. Her focus on narrative
discourse and real texts is an advance over the study of processing of sentence parts in isolation or artificial laboratory texts./ Tom Trabasso, Dept of Psychology, The University of Chicago, in Journal of Pragmatics, vol 30, 1998.
a new contribution to the study of narrative which makes an explicit attempt to join some of these traditions on a new middle ground, the one of discourse./ I ... can heartily recommend it to researchers from both traditions, Gerard Steen, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Language and
Literature, 1999, Vol 8, no1
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