1st Edition

Experiencing Narrative Worlds

By Richard Gerrig Copyright 1993
291 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

What does it mean to be transported by a narrative?to create a world inside one's head? How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book Richard Gerrig integrates insights from cognitive psychology and from research linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to provide a cohesive account of what we have most often treated as isolated aspects of... Read more
* Two Metaphors * Inferential Aspects of Performance * Participatory Responses * Language Use in Narrative Worlds * Some Consequences of Being Transported * Narrative Information and Real-World Judgments

Biography

Richard Gerrig