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