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Segal, Erwin M.; Miller, Gregory; Hosenfeld, Carol; Mendelsohn, Aurora; Russell, William; Julian, James; Greene, Alyssa; Delphonse, Joseph – Discourse Processes, 1997
Shows that getting involved with a story is the primary dimension of story appreciation, and that different readers interact with the same story in different ways. Indicates that the first-person grammatical device invites readers to identify with the main character, but whether or not they do is a complex function of story properties,…
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