Rhetorical Ways of Covering Up Speculations and Hypotheses, or Why Empirical Investigations of Real Readers Matter

Alber,

doi:10.5325/style.52.1-2.0034

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“…Recent research on reader response, particularly within the fields of cognitive stylistics (Whiteley and Canning, 2017) and cognitive narratology (Alber, 2018; Herman and Vervaeck, 2019), underscores the need to empirically obtain information about the ways in which individuals interact with literature and narratives. These lines of research typically build on the underlying assumption that narratives provide gapped, Gestalt representations of storyworlds (Herman, 2002) and of the entities that inhabit them, to be meaningfully filled out, emotionally actualized, and bodily enlivened by readers during the act of reading.…”

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Real readers reading Wasco’s ‘City’: A storyworld possible selves approach

Martínez

Herman

2020

Language and Literature

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This study empirically investigates reader responses to the one-page graphic narrative ‘City’ within the theoretical framework of storyworld possible selves. These are blended structures resulting from the conceptual integration of two input spaces: the mental representation that readers construct for the narrator or character that perspectivizes a narrative, and the mental representation that readers entertain for themselves, or self-concept. In our study, we use a questionnaire to elicit information about the internal organization of storyworld possible selves blends in 15 real readers, and we discuss the bearing of both collectively shared and idiosyncratic storyworld possible self blends on character construction, emotional response, and narrative construal.

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confidence: 99%