Fictionality in literary and non-literary discourse

Cognitive Processes in Reading Literary Texts: The Influence of Context, Goals and Situations

“…The features of understanding cannot be shown primarily due to encoding or retrieval. Differentiating between two situational components cannot be empirically established for literary understanding [28]. Furthermore, we can establish that understanding literary texts can in general be characterized by three different components, namely by three types of elaboration:…”

“…In addition, a third central question concerns the role of encoding and retrieval as influences on the literary reading process. According to Schmidt, it is unclear whether an elaborated representation of literary texts is developed during the reading process (under the influence of encoding conditions) or after the reading as an evaluation (under the influence of retrieval conditions) [28]. This open question corresponds with schematheoretical problems, that is with the general debate concerning the relative importance of encoding and retrieval [10,29].…”

“…According to S. J. Schmidt encoding-processes, which are non-specific for literature, are followed by system-specific operations used for fictionalization [28]. These do not necessarily relate to the process of reading.…”

The Fiction Is That Reality Exists: A Constructivist Model of Reality, Fiction, and Literature

“…S.J. Schmidt 1976Schmidt , 1980Schmidt -1982Schmidt , 1980a. In this paper I will outline a theoretical frame within which these notions will be explicated, thus avoiding idle metaphysical or metaphorical chat.…”

“…By TEXT (cf. Schmidt 1980Schmidt , 1982, I mean a physical object that normally socialized speakers of a natural language, Ln, identify as an item of Ln by applying acquired graphematic or acoustic, lexical and syntactic rules of Ln. By KOMMUNIKAT, I mean a cognitive structure that is emotionally charged and evaluated by the system with regard to practical relevance (either implicitly or explicitly).…”