Characterization refers to the process of attributing character traits to narrative entities called
'characters'. While there is a long tradition of characterization theory in literary studies, the …

Human beings are the only creatures known to engage in sport. We are sporting animals,
and our favourite pastime of football is the biggest sport spectacle on earth. The Philosophy …

Zusammenfassung Zentrales Anliegen des Beitrags ist es, Affekttheorien für die empirische
Anwendung in der Kommunikations-und Medienwissenschaft nutzbar zu machen. Dazu …

This chapter provides a map of current discussions on character engagement through the
concepts of empathy and sympathy in the cognitive tradition. After arguing for abandoning …

Fictional characters give literary works a sense of reality. The actions of fictional characters
play a crucial role in children's personality development. Young readers who lack critical …

Wie werden in Reality TV-Formaten ausgehandelte Regeln des emotionalen Ausdrucks und
deren Inszenierung auf Facebook bewertet? Welche unterschiedlichen Orientierungen in …

Merle glaubte sich und seinen Roman von den Zeitgenossen missverstanden und bereute,
ihn nicht mit einem Vorwort ausgestattet zu haben. 166 Daher fügte er ein solches 1972 der …

In this article, I first address the ethical considerations about football and show that a
meritocratic-fairness view of sports fails to capture the phenomenon of football. Fairness of …

Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy, including Theory of MindOffers a
broad overview of current scientific work on the effects of fiction-reading on empathy …

The article explores two media discourse formats, film and TV interview as manifesting the
specific distribution of two communicative modalities—speech and gesture—in the …