Deixis in Narrative

Gail A. Bruder, Judith F. Duchan, Lynne E. Hewitt

• 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.

"The book is well-organized, and does not suffer from incoherence....this is accomplished, on the one hand, by the editors, who have written an instructive preface in which they glue the chapters together, and, on the other hand, by the authors, who have taken much effort to explain why their work fits into this particular volume. The latter becomes clear, for instance, by frequently occurring references to work by the other authors....the chapters provide much insight into how narrative works, especially in ways that an author can lead readers through the story world, in terms of space, time, and the experience of subjectivity."—Computational Linguistics"The book is a valuable contribution the understanding of deixis and narratives. There is no doubt that it is of interest to linguists interested in discourse analysis."—The Phonetician