Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer

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Directions in Empirical Literary Studies

In honor of Willie van Peer

Edited by: Sonia Zyngier , Marisa Bortolussi , Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2008

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Volume 5 | Linguistic Approaches to Literature

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Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics and literature, all focusing on how empirical studies have impacted these different areas. Theoretical issues are discussed and solid methods are presented. Some chapters also show the relation between empirical studies and new technology, examining developments in computer science and corpus linguistics. This book takes a global perspective, with contributors from many different countries, both senior and junior researchers. Broad in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, it contributes with the state-of-the-art developments in the field.

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Denis Dutton , University of Canterbury, New Zealand:
The essays in this volume represent the most advanced and intriguing work being done today in the empirical study of literature. How fitting that they are published in honor of Willie van Peer, an intellectual pioneer whose scholarship will continue to have a powerful effect on criticism and philosophy in years to come.

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Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives
Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction Uri Margolin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity Geoff M. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Notes toward a new philology Donald C. Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
A theory of expressive reading Don Kuiken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature
Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative David S. Miall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives Yeshayahu Shen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Narrative empathy and inter-group relations János László and Ildiko Smogyvary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies Raymond Mar, Maja Djikic and Keith Oatley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition Frank Hakemulder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Part III. Computers and the humanities
An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions Arthur C. Graesser and Brent Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts Max M. Louwerse, Nick Benesh and Bin Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics Michael Kimmel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Searching for style in modern American poetry David L. Hoover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
The laws governing the history of poetry Colin Martindale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. Bill Louw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation
Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety Vander Viana, A. Giordani and Sonia Zyngier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Language allergy: Myth or reality Mariya Sergeyeva and Anna Chesnokova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings Vladimir Yepishev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea Jan Prasil, Maria Dudusova and Jan Auracher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland Maciej Maryl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English Walter Nash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
About the contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Index of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Index of keywords Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355

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September 19, 2008

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9789027290625

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357

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.5

eBook ISBN: 9789027290625

Keywords for this book

Writing and literacy; Theoretical linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Discourse studies; Pragmatics

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