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Text World Theory and situation-model research: enhancing validity and tracking world-retrievals 文本世界理论和情境模型研究：提高有效性和追踪世界检索

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2023-2002

A. Gibbons

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Frame shifting and fictive motion in Shelley’s poetic sublime 雪莱诗歌崇高中的移格与虚构运动

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2054

M. Bruhn

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Mind-modelling literary personas 塑造文学人物形象

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2056

P. Stockwell

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Bodily involvement in readers’ online book reviews: applying Text World Theory to examine absorption in unprompted reader response 读者在线书评中的身体参与:应用文本世界理论研究读者无意识反应中的吸收

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2055

M. Kuijpers

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Postscript Mark J. Bruhn 后记马克·J·布鲁恩

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2058

W. van Peer

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Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey,Language in place: stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey，《场所语言:景观、场所和环境的风格视角》

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2059

Anne Furlong

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Introduction: the art of sweet persuasion. David Miall’s life and work 导言:甜蜜说服的艺术。大卫·米尔的生活和工作

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2052

W. van Peer

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Operationalizing perpetrator studies. Focusing readers’ reactions to The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell 实施犯罪者研究。聚焦读者对乔纳森·利特尔《善良的人》的反应

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2057

Julia de Jonge, Serena Demichelis, S. Rebora, M. Salgaro

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The affective allure – a phenomenological dialogue with David Miall’s studies of foregrounding and feeling 情感诱惑——与大卫·米尔前景与情感研究的现象学对话

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2053

Paul Sopcak, Don Kuiken

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Embodiment in the diversity of literary experience: a reply to Wolfgang Teubert (2021) 文学经验多样性的体现:对沃尔夫冈·图伯特的回复(2021)

IF 1 2区文学

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2022-2050

R. Gibbs, Carina Rasse

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