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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2013
      20 December 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139084321
      9781107017566
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084321
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 335 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to construct contexts, how to draw inferences and how to identify the key parts of a story. Writers can skilfully convey physical sensations, prompt emotional states, effect moral responses and even alter the readers' attitudes. Mind, Brain and Narrative examines the psychological and neuroscientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie narrative comprehension. The authors explore the scientific developments which demonstrate the importance of attention, counterfactuals, depth of processing, perspective and embodiment in these processes. In so doing, this timely, interdisciplinary work provides an integrated account of the research which links psychological mechanisms of language comprehension to humanities work on narrative and style.

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    ‘Sanford and Emmott’s Mind, Brain and Narrative is the book of the decade for those in the interdisciplinary discourse sciences who appreciate the nuances of multi-layered narrative representation, comprehension, and communication. They discuss scenario-mapping theory, rhetorical focussing principles, and experiential immersion, which are central to a deep understanding of inferences, perspective, emotions, persuasion, figurative language, embodiment, and other phenomena that continue to mystify empirical researchers and literary scholars.’

    Arthur C. Graesser - University of Memphis

    ‘This book forms an impressive and solid scholarly bridge between the humanities and the cognitive neurosciences from which it offers a broad and in-depth view of narrative comprehension. It is required reading for anyone interested in why stories are important to us and how we understand them.’

    Rolf A. Zwaan - Erasmus University Rotterdam

    'In this ingenious book, Sanford and Emmott bring together decades of research in psychology and literature regarding the effect of language on the mind of the reader.'

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