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Lijuan Chen; Xiaodong Xu; Hongling Lv – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
A fictional story is always narrated from a certain narrative voice and mode of focalization. These core narrative techniques have a major impact on how readers interpret the narrative plot and connect with the characters. This study used eye-tracking to investigate how classic narrative reading is affected by narrative voice and focalization. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Adults, Novels
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Isberner, Maj-Britt; Richter, Tobias; Schreiner, Constanze; Eisenbach, Yanina; Sommer, Christin; Appel, Markus – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Several studies have shown that narratives can influence readers' beliefs about themselves. In the present study, our goal was to investigate whether stories portraying a strong protagonist can positively influence recipients' beliefs of being in control of events in their own lives (self-related control beliefs). Experiment 1 showed that…
Descriptors: Imagery, Narration, Reading Processes, Self Concept