Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective

Judith F. Duchan
Gail A. Bruder
Lynne E. Hewitt (Eds.)

Hillsdale, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

1995

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue: A simple exercise in narrative understanding Judith F. Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, and Lynne E. Hewitt

Part I Deictic Theory

1. Narrative comprehension and the role of deictic shift theory
   Erwin M. Theory
2. Deictic shift theory and the poetics of involvement in narrative
   Mary Galbraith
3. A cognitive-phenomenological theory of fictional narratives
   Erwin M. Segal
4. An introduction to a computational reader of narratives
   Stuart C. Shapiro and William J. Rapaport
5. Cognition and fiction
   William J. Rapaport and Stuart C. Shapiro
6. The deictic center: A theory of deixis in narrative
   David A. Zubin and Lynne E. Hewitt
   
   Part II Deictic Tracking in Narrative
7. Time in narratives
   Michael J. Almeida
8. Computational representation of space
   Albert Hanyong Yuhan and Stuart C. Shapiro
9. Preschool children’s introduction of characters into their oral stories: Evidence for deictic organization of first narratives
   Judith Felson Duchan
10. Psychological evidence that linguistic devices are used by readers to understand spatial deixis in narrative text
    Gail A. Bruder
    
    Part III Subjectivity in Narrative
11. References in narrative text
    Janyce M. Wiebe
12. Discourse continuity and perspective taking
    Naicong Li and David A. Zubin
13. Experiential versus agentive constructions in Korean narrative
    Soon Ae Chun and David A. Zubin
14. Anaphor in subjective contexts in narrative fiction
    Lynne E. Hewitt
15. Recognizing subjectivity and identifying subjective characters in third-person fictional narrative
    Gail A. Bruder and Nanyce M. Wiebe
    
    Part IV Extensions of Deictic Theory
16. Expanding the traditional category of deictic elements: Interjections as deictics
    David P. Wilkins
17. Wayfinding directions as discourse: Verbal directions in English and Spanish
    David M. Mark and Michael D. Gould
18. Deixis in persuasive texts written by bilinguals of different degrees of expertise
    Carol Hosenfeld, Judith F. Duchan and Jeffery Higginbotham
19. Narrative structure in a cognitive framework
    Leonard Talmy
20. A structural analysis of a fictional narrative: “A free night,” by Anne Maury Costello
    Anne M. Costello, Gail A. Bruder, Carol Hosenfeld and Judith F. Duchan