Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is
defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …

Science is a search for evidence, but science communication must be a search for meaning.
General audiences will only care about science if it is presented in a meaningful context …

Focalization, the filtering of a story through a consciousness prior to and/or embedded within
its narratorial mediation, is a fundamental analytical concept in narrative theory. 1 It allows …

Purpose The paper shows the interpretive impact of different constructions of the point of
view available to the reader/viewer in book and animated movie versions of a children's …

This article establishes a definition of we-narrative based on a plural type of narrator, and in
doing so challenges many of the presuppositions in the recent work on we-narratives …

There is a long tradition in philosophy and literary criticism of belief in the social and moral
benefits of exposure to fiction, and recent empirical work has examined some of these …

This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of
social movements and a study of discourses on the European “refugee crisis”, by leading …

This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop
culture in Delhi, India. The author suggests that practitioners understand hip hop as both a …

This volume presents a multidisciplinary approach to narrative engagement within the
paradigms of cognitive linguistics, cognitive narratology, and social-psychology. In their …