This article offers a theoretical framework to explain circumstances under which perceptions
of “unrealness” affect engagement in narratives and subsequent perceived realism …

Drawing on treatments of the problem of intentionality in fields encompassed by the
umbrella discipline of cognitive science, including language theory, psychology, and the …

A growing body of literature in psychology, linguistics, and the neurosciences has paid
increasing attention to the understanding of the relationships between phonological …

Recent years have seen increasing efforts to integrate narrative theory with developments in
cognitive science (eg, Herman 2003; Keen 2007; Palmer 2004). Thus far these efforts have …

This paper introduces the Deictic Navigation Network, a cognitive-linguistic framework to
analyze and clarify the nature of viewpoint disturbances in language, applied to …

Flashback and flashforward, as well as analepsis and prolepsis in the terminology of Gérard
Genette, belong to some of the few almost undisputed concepts in narrative theory. But if we …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe mental health problem of a
heterogeneous nature. To add to discussions around defining coherent subtypes of OCD …

This article explicates the “experiential mode” of media reception as a framework concept
providing a holistic characterization of a distinct way of processing and experiencing media …

Anthropogenic sea-level rise is forcing—and will force—extraordinary measures in
adaptation and retreat. At the same time, it is compelling conventions in aesthetics …

To assist legal professionals with more effective information processing and evaluation, we
aim to develop software to identify and visualize the key information dispersed in the …