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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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Gernsbacher, Morton Ann; Robertson, Rachel R. W.; Palladino, Paola; Werner, Necia K. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
Three experiments investigated how readers manage their mental representations during narrative comprehension. The first experiment investigated whether readers' access to their mental representations of the main character in a narrative becomes enhanced (producing a "benefit") when the character is rementioned; the first experiment also…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Reader Text Relationship, Thinking Skills