...Meir Sternberg Inference has long been the concern of assorted disciplines that vary in focus, rationale, apparatus, terminology, and achievement. There would appear an inverse proportion between the range and the orderliness of the knowledge accumulated by the various disciplines. Literary study...

... is mediated. This links up with Meir Sternberg's model of how fictional communication works through quotation . To infer unreliability is to make sense of the text at a quotational remove, with the mediator as ironized quotee set into the overall narrative for a purpose. And the ultimate quoter along...

... reality. By providing scattered hints from which further information can be deduced or inferred, often but not always with the help of contextual knowledge, this temporal narrative strategy invites the reader to actively participate and politically engage in the reconstruction of future histories...

... to this apparent contradiction by examining how Behn employs the psychology of transgressive love to model the relation between the king and his subjects. By drawing selectively from the different sets of inferences present in the conceptual spaces of passionate love and autocratic power, Behn produces an unstable...

...Dan Shen This essay explores how to infer from a text the image of the implied author. It examines Kate Chopin's “Désirée's Baby” (1893), which has been widely regarded as an indictment of racism but which an “overall consideration” of the implied author's choices will lead us to see as a racist...

...-response potentials) studies that focus on the first 500 msecs of response. These studies suggest the possibility that emotion plays a key role in subsequent cognitive processing, including the making of inferences, invoking the reader's memory, or relating empathically to a character. Emotions evoked...

... of inference to the analysis of visual narratives begun to attract attention, mostly with regard to bridging hypotheses between panels on the level of narrative structure. This article, in contrast, addresses the general question of meaning construction at the level of narrative panels and even smaller units...

... corpus of novels in which various design features (such as layout) and semiotic systems (such as pictures or maps) offer experiences that are not linguistically shaped. They observe that these additional modal and material resources can strengthen or weaken what readers infer from the written words...

... : 246 – 54 . McKoon Gail Ratcliff Roger 1992 . “ Inference during Reading .” Psychological Review 99 , no. 3 : 440 – 66 . Millis Keith . 2001 . “ Making Meaning Brings Pleasure: The Influence of Titles on Aesthetic Experiences .” Emotion 1 , no. 3 : 320 – 29...

... .” Journal of Genetic Psychology 163 , no. 3 Knowledge, Understanding, Well-Being: Cognitive Literary Studies : 305 – 25 . Gygax Pascal Gillioz Christelle 2015 . “ Emotion Inferences during Reading: Going beyond the Tip of the Iceberg .” In Inferences during Reading , edited...

... Theory (London: Prentice Hall). Shank, Roger C., and Robert Abelson 1977 Scripts, Plans, Goals and Understanding (Hillside, NJ:Erlbaum). Shiro, M. 1994 “Inferences in Discourse Comprehension,” in Advances in Written Text Analysis , edited by Malcolm Coulthard, 167 -78 (London: Routledge...

... to adhere to what is necessary (anangkaion) and probable (eikos). How are we to understand this recurrent formula? According to the To p i c s , dialectic inferences are based on endoxal premises, that is, premises admitted...

... and Maelzel’s chess player as that between a “determinate” calculation and making inferences about data that cannot be known in advance. A machine like Babbage’s calculator “proceeds . . . to its final determination, by a succession of unerring steps liable to no change...

... as Exemplary Inference ,” Poetics Today 22 : 129 – 244 . 2001b “ Why Narrativity Makes a Difference ,” Narrative 9 : 115 – 22 . 2003a “ Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (I) ,” Poetics Today 24 : 297 – 395 . 2003b “ Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist...

... of a sentence or a set of sen- tences amounts to being able to make further inferences based on them. A statement found in a history book, like ‘‘Zola and Jaurès’s articles proved that Dreyfus was innocent leads, among other inferences, to descriptive statements, such as, ‘‘The press played a major role...

... understanding represented in Austen s works, with a special emphasis on situations where inference and simulation go awry. Jones explores the three biopsychosocial systems underlying the love emotions in Austen s novels: attachment, romance, and sexual desire. Drawing on empir- ical findings in neurology...

... to another, ‘Hang on, that doesn’t really follow.’ Since philosophy is largely about the construction of arguments, the philosopher needs to be finely tuned to what follows from what. Non-sequitur is the ultimate put- down” (McGinn 2002: 44). It is this emphasis on inference, understood...

...) thus sees Aristotle’s topoi koinoi (the common topoi, which apply to all the domains of knowledge) as ‘‘logical modes of inference’’ and the eíde (topoi specific to a domain of knowledge) as expressing ‘‘specific...

...) thus sees Aristotle’s topoi koinoi (the common topoi, which apply to all the domains of knowledge) as ‘‘logical modes of inference’’ and the eíde (topoi specific to a domain of knowledge) as expressing ‘‘specific...

...) thus sees Aristotle’s topoi koinoi (the common topoi, which apply to all the domains of knowledge) as ‘‘logical modes of inference’’ and the eíde (topoi specific to a domain of knowledge) as expressing ‘‘specific...