Just what is narrative urgency?
This article takes as its main point of departure a body of empirical research on reading and text processing, and makes particular reference to the type of experiments conducted in Egidi and Gerrig (2006) and Rapp and Gerrig (2006). Broadly put, these experiments (i) explore the psychology of reade...
| Publicado en: | Language & Literature Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 3 - 23 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2014
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