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Publication details [#11796]
Segal, Erwin M., Gregory Miller, Carol Hosenfeld, Aurora Mendelsohn, William Russell, James Julian, Alyssa Greene and Joseph Delphonso. 1997. Person and Tense in Narrative Interpretation. Discourse Processes 24 (2/3) : 271–307. 37 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Ablex Publishing Company
ISBN
0163-853X
Annotation
It is shown that first person narratives try to establish main character identification. Fulfilling this goal depends on a variety of interactional factors, such as reader psychology. The role of tense in story interpretation, if any, remains unclear.