scholarly journals Experiencing Powerful Prose

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
R. L. Victoria Pöhls ◽  
Mariane Utudji
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Emotional Effects ◽  
Shed Light

R. L. Victoria Pöhls and Mariane Utudji consider the types of research processes required to identify 'powerful' prose texts, their workings and potentialities. They argue that a stylistic and linguistic analysis is an indispensable first step, which can be enhanced through an oral performance of the text, as an effective means to highlight the linguistic components and mechanisms contributing to the powerful reading experience. Based on such a(n embodied) analysis process, well-grounded hypotheses about the cognitive and emotional effects of certain works of literature on certain readers in certain reading situations can be made. Empirical reader response studies can then aim to substantiate these claims beyond individual experience - to shed light on the interplays between texts, readers, and reading situations that constitute experiences of powerful prose.

scholarly journals Becoming a Crorepati: From Glocal TV Game to Grobal Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-520
Author(s):  
Nicola Pozza
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Slumdog Millionaire ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

AbstractNumerous studies have dealt with the process of globalization and its various cultural products. Three such cultural products illustrate this process: Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A (2005), the TV quiz show Kaun banega crorepati? (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The novel, the TV show and the film have so far been studied separately. Juxtaposing and comparing Q and A, Kaun banega crorepati, and Slumdog Millionaire provides an effective means to shed light on the dialogic and interactive nature of the process of globalization. It is argued through this case study that an analysis of their place of production, language and content, helps clarify the derivative concepts of “glocalization” and “grobalization” with regard to the way(s) contemporary cultural products respond to globalization.

scholarly journals Translating English Sound Symbolism in Italian Comics: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis across Six Decades (1932–1992)

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Pier Simone Pischedda
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Archival Work ◽  
Shed Light

Linking interdisciplinarity and multimodality in translation studies, this paper will analyse the diachronic translation of English ideophones in Italian Disney comics. This is achieved thanks to the compiling of a bi-directional corpus of sound symbolic entries spanning six decades (1932–1992)—a corpus that was created following extensive archival work in various Italian and American libraries between 2014 and 2016. The central aim is to showcase practical examples coming from published comic scripts and to highlight patterns of translation in each of the five different time windows which were chosen according to specific historical, linguistic and cultural vicissitudes taking place in the Italian nation. Overall, the intention is to shed light on an under-developed area of studies that focuses on the cross-linguistical transposition of ideophonic forms in comic books and to pinpoint how greater factors might influence the treatment of such deceptively miniscule elements in the comic books’ pages.

From text-linguistics to literary actants—The force dynamics of (emotional) vampirism

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kimmel
Keyword(s):  
Scale Up ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Force Dynamics ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
Coherence Patterns ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThis article provides some groundwork for applying the cognitive linguistic theory of force dynamics (Talmy 1988, 2000) to narrative discourse. It proposes that Talmy's analytic apparatus is suitable for revealing character-related dynamics in literature, especially by exploiting the previously unnoticed convergence with the notion of actancy proposed by the narratologist Greimas (1966). Force imagery both in ordinary action descriptions and in metaphor opens a vista on how readers infer, stabilize, and elaborate narrative macro-representations of “who wants what” and “who does what to whom?” Hence, texts subtly encode aspects of higher-level story logic through forces, enabling readers (and scholars) to detect and scale up coherence patterns that shed light on character motives, protagonist interaction, and plot dynamics. A full-scale text linguistic analysis is proposed. My case study of about 500 text units found in Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's novella Carmilla (1872) reveals a dynamic web of driving, penetrating, manipulating, attracting, and erupting forces between the two main protagonists, a beautiful girl vampire and her 19 year-old victim.

scholarly journals The Process of Clinical Reasoning among Medical Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
Djon Machado Lopes ◽  
Gustavo Henrique Bregagnollo ◽  
Bruna Morais Barbosa ◽  
Ana Maria Nunes de Faria Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
Reasoning Process ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Group 1

ABSTRACT Introduction Research in the field of medical reasoning has shed light on the reasoning process used by medical students. The strategies in this process are related to the analytical [hypothetical-deductive (HD)] and nonanalytic [scheme-inductive) (SI)] systems, and pattern recognition (PR)]. Objective To explore the clinical reasoning process of students from the fifth year of medical school at the end of the clinical cycle of medical internship, and to identify the strategies used in preparing diagnostic hypotheses, knowledge organization and content. Method Qualitative research conducted in 2014 at a Brazilian public university with medical interns. Following Stamm’s method, a case in internal medicine (IM) was built based on the theory of prototypes (Group 1 = 47 interns), in which the interns listed, according to their own perceptions, the signs, symptoms, syndromes, and diseases typical of internal medicine. This case was used for evaluating the clinical reasoning process of Group 2 (30 students = simple random sample) obtained with the “think aloud” process. The verbalizations were transcribed and evaluated by Bardin’s thematic analysis. The content analysis were approved by two experts at the beginning and at the end of the analysis process. Results The interns developed 164 primary and secondary hypotheses when solving the case. The SI strategy prevailed with 48.8%, followed by PR (35.4%), HD (12.2%), and mixed (1.8 % each: SI + HD and HD + PR). The students built 146 distinct semantic axes, resulting in an average of 4.8/participant. During the analysis, 438 interpretation processes were executed (average of 14.6/participant), and 124 combination processes (average of 4.1/participant). Conclusions The nonanalytic strategies prevailed with the PR being the most used in the development of primary hypotheses (46.8%) and the SI in secondary hypotheses (93%). The interns showed a strong semantic network and did three and a half times more interpretation than combination processes, reflecting less deep organization and content of knowledge when compared with experienced physicians.

L’iconicité des hiéroglyphes égyptiens

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Simon Thuault
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
Hieroglyphic Writing ◽  
Shed Light

SummaryAlthough mutilation is a well-known process of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system, its involvement in signs’ figurativity and iconicity has benefited of less attention. Yet, the mutilation practice could have deep consequences for the grammatological nature of hieroglyphs, implying alterations in our analysis of the whole Egyptian scriptural functioning. Thus, this paper aims to shed light, through examples of mutilated signs, on the iconic essence of the affected hieroglyphs: does the alteration of a sign impact its iconicity and, due to this, its raison d’être in a clause or a lexeme? Since there are kinds of mutilation, do they result in various implications in our linguistic analysis of the sign? Moreover, what metonymical relations can we observe in this process? These linguistic and psychological issues will allow to complete our understanding of the mutilation practice and, consequently, of the essence of hieroglyphic signs.

scholarly journals Powerful Prose

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Reader Response Theory ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Psychological Features

What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to investigate just that. The thirteen contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.

scholarly journals Reader’s Consciousness in Literary Interpretation with Special Reference to Stanley Fish’s Reader Response Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Chhabi Seth
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Response Theory ◽  
Reader Response Theory ◽  
Reading Processes ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Interpretive Communities

Reader Response Theory is a broad, exciting, evolving domain of literary studies that can help us learn about our own reading processes and how they relate to specific elements in the text we read. The readers do not passively consume the meaning presented to them by the objective literary text. Stanley Fish’s Reader Response Theory originated with an interesting experiment that was conducted by him for proving that, ‘Interpretation is not the art of construing but the art of constructing. Interpreters do not decode poems; they make them.’ It is the consciousness of the reader that makes the text relevant and significant. The text has no meaning and relevance before the reader reads it and presents his own judgement and experience regarding the text. The readers are termed as the ‘interpretive communities’ as they analyze the text and play an active role in a reading experience. The paper will focus on highlighting the reader’s consciousness, his perception and experience which gives meaning and significance to a literary text. It will point out that the meaning does not lie in the text, but it is the consciousness of the reader which creates it and adds meaning to the text.

scholarly journals Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Ciarán Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks

In »Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash«, Ciarán Kavanagh seeks to establish a methodological basis for reader-response analysis and to give substance to theory through its deployment in his study of Ballard's novel, a text which combines and subverts multiple frameworks. His chapter thus focusses on the microcosmic, line-by-line reading experience provided by two excerpts that exemplify Ballard's clinical over-description of damaged and refigured bodies, as well as on macrocosmic interpretive frameworks relating to genre, embodiment, and aesthetics

Consumer Attitudes toward Online Video Game Purchases

2015 ◽  
pp. 83-112
Author(s):  
Wilson Ozuem ◽  
Michael Borrelli
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Consumer Attitudes ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Shed Light

Much research has been carried out on online shopping and the implications of such a purchasing format for consumers and retailers. The majority of these studies have focused on consumer attitudes toward online shopping and how these can be useful predictors of online shopping adoption. Despite these insights from adoption theory, extant research has not yet distilled the most effective means of understanding consumers' attitudes toward online video game purchases. This chapter aims to shed light on this issue by developing an integrative framework to examine how the advent of Internet technologies affects consumers' attitudes toward video games.

A cognitive-stylistic response to contradictions

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Empirical Approaches

Teske’s paper places structuralist emphasis on the meaningfulness of contradictions and explores how these contradictions may affect readers’ processes of interpretation in postmodern fiction. While I agree with Teske’s analysis of the function of contradictions in the experience of reading postmodern fiction, I introduce a cognitive-stylistic perspective which complements Teske’s structuralist exploration of contradictions. I provide a linguistic analysis of a passage from The Unconsoled to demonstrate the usefulness of this complementary approach. I also consider how drawing on theoretical elements from cognitive stylistics as well as empirical approaches such as reader response may be useful in expanding Teske’s innovative analysis of contradictions.

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