... in the Experience of Narrative .” Psychology of Learning and Motivation , no. 51 : 223 – 54 . Gerrig Richard J. O’Brien Edward J. . 2005 . “ The Scope of Memory-Based Processing .” Discourse Processes 39 , nos. 2–3 : 225 – 42 . Goldman Alvin . 2006 . “ Imagination and Simulation...

... it was intended. This is, of course, an artificial environment. As Allyssa McCabe (1983) pointed out over thirty years ago, the metaphorical sense of a sentence emerges as a conse- quence of processing within a discourse or cultural context, and, consequent- ly, one can ask about the extent...

.... The Holocaust surfaces as late as his third book, mainly in a small group of poems. Their dense and subtle poetic composition functions for rhetorical, notably testimonial ends. Equally important is the fictionalizing of both the world and the discourse about it. A twofold dialogic process (inset versus framing...

.... (Zillmann 1983: 92) Therefore, the narrators of humorous novels strive to create, from the initial stages of their discourse, a common ground of reference with the reader by appealing to his or her encyclopedic knowledge, a process designed to cul- tivate a feeling of ‘‘positive identification...

... of him before he takes the floor); the distribution of roles inherent in the selected genre and the stereotypes attached to these roles; and the verbal strategies through which the speaker builds an image of self in his discourse.“Argumentative analysis” thus explores a dynamic process in which social...

... and Metaphor” (38.1). My target first proposal stipulates that, in the creation and comprehension of metaphoric expressions in natural discourse contexts, bidirectional processing always initiates with an abstraction from the target domain that is effectively projected on the source domain, promoting...

... . “ Generating Predictive Inferences While Viewing a Movie .” Discourse Processes 22 , no. 3 : 199 – 224 . Magliano Joseph P. Kopp Kristopher Higgs Karyn Rapp David N. 2016a . “ Filling in the Gaps: Memory Implications for Inferring Missing Content in Graphic Narratives .” Discourse...

... may, nevertheless, proceed to forget them again. Against the background of this view of cultural memory as an ongoing elaboration of a collective relationship to the past through the mediation of discourse, the question arises as to the possible role of literary texts in this process. I use...

...: 12, 15) calls this process forced forgetting, or the way a state apparatus . . . deprive[s] its citizens of their memory. I would add that nations create and perpetuate monological discourses by selectively mapping certain events as historical contingencies while simultaneously omitting others...

... and imperialistic projects” (Kümmerling-Meibauer and Müller 2017 : 11). Having developed into an academic subdiscipline, which emphasized the process of canon formation and its social function of fostering national and cultural identities, the newly designated discourse soon spread out of the United States...

...Andrea Macrae Abstract The explicit imperative to “tell a story” recently dominating UK and US fundraising discourse refers specifically to the central compelling “story” of the representative victim/beneficiary, and yet there are multiple stories at work in charity fundraising letters...

...Alice Crossley Abstract This essay reads Tanizaki Jun'ichirō’s controversial novel Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) for its contribution to discourses about aging masculinity and male sexuality in later life. The Diary meditates on the mental and physical vicissitudes of aging masculinity, arousal...

... A. Zwann, Arthur C. Graesser, and Joseph P. Magliano 1995 “Character and Reader Emotions in Literary Texts,” Poetics 23 : 139 -57. Dorfman, Marcy H., and William F. Brewer 1994 “Understanding the Points of Fables,” Discourse Processes 17 : 105 -29. Duchan, Judith F., Gail A. Bruder...

.... Dorfman, Marcy H., and William F. Brewer 1994 “Understanding the Points of Fables,” Discourse Processes 17 : 105 -29. Duchan, Judith F., Gail A. Bruder, and Lynne E. Hewitt, eds. 1995 Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum). Dundes, Alan 1965...

... : 232 – 37 . Green Melanie C . 2004 . “ Transportation into Narrative Worlds: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Perceived Realism .” Discourse Processes 38 , no. 2 : 247 – 66 . Halász László . 1991 . “ Emotional Effect and Reminding in Literary Processing .” Poetics 20...

... proposed. In a recent paper (Miall 2008) I listed several of these, as follows. In discourse processing, Graesser and his colleagues (e.g., Graesser, Singer, and Trabasso 1994) suggest, on the basis of empirical studies, that six types of inference are generated online automatically...

... of the expression is highly salient for ‘‘night’’ and ‘‘coal’’ in both the original and reversed orders. However, bringing affect into the metaphor interpretation process may help strengthen the idea of asymmetry. In a particular discourse context, if coal, say, has a strong negative global valence while night...

... with fictional literature. Researchers in narratology, cogni- tive psychology, social psychology, discourse processing, and other disci- plines have suggested that specific textual features—for example, narrative progression, focalization, narratorial voice, and so forth—can influence Poetics...

... approach to literary reading in the digital age, linking media discourses to literary analysis and developing a series of hypotheses about reading speed that could be tested empirically. Taking into account these multiple, parallel processes, reading research conceptualizes reading as an activity...

... and help in improving the essay. © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 References Barsalou Lawrence W. 1999a “ Language Comprehension: Archival Memory or Preparation for Situated Action? ,” Discourse Processes 28 : 61 – 80 . 1999b “ Perceptual Symbol...