WHEN THEY FOUNDED the field of narratology in the middle to late 1960s, structuralist
theorists of narrative failed to come to terms with two dimensions of narrative that constitute …

The title of this essay makes reference to Richard Gerrig's study Experiencing Narrative
Worlds (1993) and David Herman's chapter on “Narrative Ways of Worldmaking” in this …

This essay begins from the assumption that mapping words onto worlds is a fundamental—
perhaps the fundamental—requirement for narrative sense making. To explore how people …

This chapter explores the research challenges and opportunities presented by narratives
that exploit more than one semiotic channel to evoke a storyworld. To outline directions for …

This special issue assembles an international group of scholars to explore emerging
connections between comics studies and narrative theory-two fields which, until the last five …

Approaches to narrative study that fall under the heading of cognitive narratology share a
focus on the mental states, capacities, and dispositions that provide grounds for—or …

In recent years, narrative analysis, acentralareaof engagement for sociolinguists, linguistic
anthropologists, and social scientists in many other disciplines, has ex-perienced …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Storytelling, as a distinctively human characteristic, is a product of our capacity for language
and symbolic communication. Just as language is considered a medium within the field of …