It is often argued that narratives improve social cognition, either by appealing to social-
cognitive abilities as we engage with the story world and its characters, or by conveying …

The impact of public narratives has been so broad (including effects on beliefs and behavior
but extending beyond to emotion and personality), that the stakeholders in the process have …

Current research on identification with narrative characters poses two problems. First,
although identification is seen as a dynamic process of which the intensity varies during …

While there is a considerable literature on most of the kinds of texts that are discussed in this
book, much of it is neither brief nor introductory. My own students' experience has been that …

The publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (UTC)(1852/1994) produced
an effect that Frederick Douglas described as" amazing, instantaneous, and universal"(as …

There is a direct relation between genres of discourse and the definition of literature. A
prototype‐theoretical perspective on the classification of discourse can reveal that such …

Page 1 JENTINE LAND ZWAKKE LEZERS, STERKE TEKSTEN? EFFECTEN VAN TEKST-
EN LEZERSKENMERKEN OP HET TEKSTBEGRIP EN DE TEKSTWAARDERING VAN …

News stories aim to create an immersive reading experience by virtually transporting the
audience to the described scenes. In print journalism, this experience is facilitated by text …

The increasing attention that has been paid over the past couple of decades to the study of
language in the media attests to linguists' fascination with a field that is immensely diverse …

In this contribution, a mental space analysis model is presented to conceptualize and
explain voice intertwining in journalistic texts. News text genres abound with clearly …