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List of contents
Contents: Preface. J.F. Duchan, G.A. Bruder, L.E. Hewitt, Prologue: A Simple Exercise in Narrative Understanding. Part I: Deictic Theory.E.M. Segal, Narrative Comprehension and the Role of Deictic Shift Theory. M. Galbraith, Deictic Shift Theory and the Poetics of Involvement in Narrative. E.M. Segal, A Cognitive-Phenomenological Theory of Fictional Narrative. S.C. Shapiro, W.J. Rapaport, An Introduction to a Computational Reader of Narratives. W.J. Rapaport, S.C. Shapiro, Cognition and Fiction. D.A. Zubin, L.E. Hewitt, The Deictic Center: A Theory of Deixis in Narrative. Part II: Deictic Tracking in Narrative.M.J. Almeida, Time in Narratives. A.H. Yuhan, S.C. Shapiro, Computational Representation of Space. J.F. Duchan, Preschool Children's Introduction of Characters into Their Oral Stories: Evidence for Deictic Organization of First Narratives. G.A. Bruder, Psychological Evidence That Linguistic Devices Are Used by Readers to Understand Spatial Deixis in Narrative Text. Part III: Subjectivity in Narrative.J.M. Wiebe, References in Narrative Text. N. Li, D.A. Zubin, Discourse Continuity and Perspective Taking. S.A. Chun, D.A. Zubin, Experiential Versus Agentive Constructions in Korean Narrative. L.E. Hewitt, Anaphor in Subjective Contexts in Narrative Fiction. G.A. Bruder, J.M. Wiebe, Recognizing Subjectivity and Identifying Subjective Characters in Third-Person Fictional Narrative. Part IV: Extensions of Deictic Theory.D.P. Wilkins, Expanding the Traditional Category of Deictic Elements: Interjections as Deictics. D.M. Mark, M.D. Gould, Wayfinding Directions as Discourse: Verbal Directions in English and Spanish. C. Hosenfeld, J.F. Duchan, J. Higginbotham, Deixis in Persuasive Texts Written by Bilinguals of Differing Degrees of Expertise. L. Talmy, Narrative Structure in a Cognitive Framework. A.M. Costello, G.A. Bruder, C. Hosenfeld, J.F. Duchan, A Structural Analysis of a Fictional Narrative: "A Free Night," by Anne Maury Costello.
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Gail A. Bruder, Judith F. Duchan, Lynne E. Hewitt
Summary
This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven-year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and communicative disorders.
