Mind, Brain and Narrative

Anthony J. Sanford is Emeritus Professor and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow. Catherine Emmott is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow.

• List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Narrative and the rhetorical processing framework; 2. Fundamentals of text processing; 3. Multiple levels: counterfactual worlds and figurative language; 4. Attention in text: foregrounding and rhetorical focussing; 5. Rhetorical focussing and depth of processing; 6. The experiential aspect: using embodiment theory; 7. Narrative perspective and the representation of speech and thought; 8. Hot cognition: emotion, empathy and suspense; 9. Narrative's social impact: persuasion and attitude change; 10. Final comments; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

'Sanford and Emmott's Mind, Brain and Narrative is the book of the decade for those in the interdisciplinary discourse sciences who appreciate the nuances of multi-layered narrative representation, comprehension, and communication. They discuss scenario-mapping theory, rhetorical focussing principles, and experiential immersion, which are central to a deep understanding of inferences, perspective, emotions, persuasion, figurative language, embodiment, and other phenomena that continue to mystify empirical researchers and literary scholars.' Arthur C. Graesser, University of Memphis