Publications

Publication details [#44296]

Emmott, Catherine, A.J. Sanford and Lorna I. Morrow. 2006. Capturing the attention of readers? Stylistic and psychological perspectives on the use and effect of text fragmentation in narratives. Journal of Literary Semantics 35 (1) : 1–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | narrative | psychology | reader | stylistics

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JLSE/html

Annotation

This paper employs stylistic and psychological perspectives to examine whether text fragmentation can capture readers' attention.