Immersion in Digital Fiction
In this article, we profile an empirically grounded, cognitive approach to immersion in digital fiction by combining text-driven stylistic analysis with insights from theories of cognition and reader-response research. We offer a new analytical method for immersive features in digital fiction by dev...
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2018-01-01
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| description | In this article, we profile an empirically grounded, cognitive approach to immersion in digital fiction by combining text-driven stylistic analysis with insights from theories of cognition and reader-response research. We offer a new analytical method for immersive features in digital fiction by developing deictic shift theory for the affordances of digital media. We also provide empirically substantiated insights to show how immersion is experienced cognitively by using Andy Campbell and Judi Alston’s (2015) digital fiction piece WALLPAPER as a case study. We add ‘interactional deixis’ and ‘audible deixis’ to Stockwell’s (2002) model to account for the multimodal nature of immersion in digital fiction. We also show how extra-textual features can contribute to immersion and thus propose that they should be accounted for when analysing immersion across media. We conclude that the analytical framework and reader response protocol that we develop here can be adapted for application to texts across media. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3cec4ca24a62474d8b369863e9dd44182022-12-21T20:01:35ZengJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzInternational Journal of Literary Linguistics2194-55942018-01-017110.15462/ijll.v7i1.105Immersion in Digital FictionAlice Bell0Astrid Ensslin1Isabelle van der Bom2Jen Smith3Sheffield Hallam UniversityUniversity of AlbertaSheffield Hallam UniversitySheffield Hallam UniversityIn this article, we profile an empirically grounded, cognitive approach to immersion in digital fiction by combining text-driven stylistic analysis with insights from theories of cognition and reader-response research. We offer a new analytical method for immersive features in digital fiction by developing deictic shift theory for the affordances of digital media. We also provide empirically substantiated insights to show how immersion is experienced cognitively by using Andy Campbell and Judi Alston’s (2015) digital fiction piece WALLPAPER as a case study. We add ‘interactional deixis’ and ‘audible deixis’ to Stockwell’s (2002) model to account for the multimodal nature of immersion in digital fiction. We also show how extra-textual features can contribute to immersion and thus propose that they should be accounted for when analysing immersion across media. We conclude that the analytical framework and reader response protocol that we develop here can be adapted for application to texts across media.https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/105Cognitive PoeticsNarrativeNarratologyImmersionEmbodimentDigital Fiction |
| spellingShingle | Alice Bell Astrid Ensslin Isabelle van der Bom Jen Smith Immersion in Digital Fiction International Journal of Literary Linguistics Cognitive Poetics Narrative Narratology Immersion Embodiment Digital Fiction |
| title | Immersion in Digital Fiction |
| title_full | Immersion in Digital Fiction |
| title_fullStr | Immersion in Digital Fiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Immersion in Digital Fiction |
| title_short | Immersion in Digital Fiction |
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| topic | Cognitive Poetics Narrative Narratology Immersion Embodiment Digital Fiction |
| url | https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/105 |
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