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Text World Theory and real world readers: From literature to life in a Belfast prison. 文本世界理论与现实世界读者:从文学到贝尔法斯特监狱生活。

Language and literature (Harlow, England) Pub Date : 2017-05-01 Epub Date: 2017-05-21 DOI: 10.1177/0963947017704731

Patricia Canning

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引用次数: 23

Mind-modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield. 《大卫·科波菲尔》中的语料库文体学思维建模。

Language and literature (Harlow, England) Pub Date : 2015-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947015576168

Peter Stockwell, Michaela Mahlberg

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引用次数: 57

Reading Dickens's characters: Employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts. 阅读狄更斯的人物:运用心理语言学的方法研究文本模式的认知现实。

Language and literature (Harlow, England) Pub Date : 2014-11-01 Epub Date: 2014-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/0963947014543887

Michaela Mahlberg, Kathy Conklin, Marie-Josée Bisson

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引用次数: 17

Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism. 自闭症小说中的语用失败、思维方式和性格特征。

Language and literature (Harlow, England) Pub Date : 2014-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947014526312

Elena Semino

引用次数: 28