The Construction of Fictional Minds

Talk About Books : A Study of Reading Groups

“…Andringa, 2004;Rall and Harris, 2000;Stockwell, 2005;Whiteley, 2011) and the simulative nature of literary reading (e.g. Gerrig, 1993;Gerrig and Allbritton, 1990;Oatley, 1999;Palmer, 2002;Zunshine, 2006). The main difference between this approach and the approaches taken in most other studies is the focus on the discursive manifestation of mimetic reading.…”

“…MacMahon 2009a, 2009b and narratology (e.g. Palmer, 2002Palmer, , 2004. The research discussed here suggests that the divide between the real world and fictional worlds is not impermeable, and that readers frequently (and perhaps necessarily) move between the two.…”

Consciousness in Modernist Fiction

“…Leech and Short, 1981;Short et al, 1996;Cohn, 1978). Palmer's (2002) argument that the verbal approach to thought presentation is reductive can be brought to bear on the interpretation of this passage. Sotirova (2009) also presents evidence in favour of a reconceptualisation of internal narration as part of free indirect style, rather than narratorial presentation of character states.…”

“…Narratologists would doubtless classify this sentence from the typescript as psychonarration, a category which on Cohn's analysis can give access to more unconscious strata of the character's mind, to states and experiences which have not reached the fully-articulated surface of conscious thinking (Cohn, 1978). Palmer (2002) has argued in favour of including sentences of this kind which carry only minimal traces of the narrator's voice into the category of free indirect style because preconscious or unconscious states of the mind are part of a character's consciousness and so to claim that they originate with the narrator would be a violation of their intuitive effects on readers. 8 Eschewing constructions which explicitly record the fully-articulated, consciously formulated thoughts of the character is, then, another revision that Lawrence introduced to the typescript when rewriting the cathedral episode.…”

Stranger than Fiction? A Few Methodological Notes on Linguistic Research in Film Discourse

“…Numerous studies representing diversified theoretical approaches have been devoted to the problem of identity construction, whether of real people or fictional characters, most frequently literary (e.g. Garvey 1978 ;Phelan 1979;Margolin 1983Margolin , 1996Schwarz 1989;Fokkema 1991;Scholes and Kellogg 1966;Walcutt 1966;Palmer 2002;Semino 2002;Antaki and Widdicombe 1998;turner and Oakes 1989;Palmer 2004;Bucholtz and Hall 2005;Martin and White 2005).…”