Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective

Author:   Catherine Emmott (Lecturer in the Department of English Language, Lecturer in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 April 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Catherine Emmott (Lecturer in the Department of English Language, Lecturer in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780198236498


ISBN 10:   0198236492
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 April 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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


`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


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 ... 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 major advance in narrative analysis ... the book will be an invaluable resource for discourse analysis, cognitive scientists, and narrative theorists alike. * David Herman, Language *


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