Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective (Oxford Linguistics) - Softcover

Emmott, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198238681 ISBN 13: 9780198238683

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1999

Synopsis

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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Review

a major advance in narrative analysis the book will be an invaluable resource for discourse analysts, cognitive scientists, and narrative theorists alike. (David Herman, North Carolina State University, USA, 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 the teaching of literacy skills. (Professor Mick Short, Lancaster University, Journal of Literary Semantics)

any future serious treatments of written narrative, and particularly of anaphora, will have to take this work into account. (Professor Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

About the Author

Catherine Emmott is at University of Glasgow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198238681
• ISBN 13: 9780198238683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344