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