Text World Theory

The list below is not intended as an exhaustive bibliography, but includes some useful introductions to Text World Theory and related academic subjects.

Bridgeman, T. (1998) Negotiating the New in the French Novel: Building Contexts for Fictional Worlds, London: Routledge.

Bridgeman, T. (2001) ‘Making worlds move: re-ranking contextual parameters in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit’, Language and Literature, 10(1): 41-59.

Chilton, P. (2004) Analysing Political Discourse, London: Routledge.

Emmott, C. (1994) ‘Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse’, in M. Coulthard (ed.), Advances in Written Text Analysis, London: Routledge, pp. 157-66.

Emmott, C. (1995) ‘Consciousness and context-building: narrative inferences and anaphoric theory’, in K. Green (ed.), New Essays in Deixis: Discourse, Narrative, Literature, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 81-97.

Emmott, C. (1997) Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective, Oxford: Clarendon.

Emmott, C. (1998) ‘‘Situated events’ in fictional worlds: the reader’s role in context construction’, European Journal of English Studies, 2(2): 175-94.

Emmott, C. (2002) ‘"Split selves" in fiction and in medical "life stories": cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice’, in E. Semino and J. Culpeper (eds), Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 153-81.

Emmott, C. (2003) ‘Towards a theory of reading in the age of cognitive science: cross-disciplinary perspectives on narrative from stylistics and psychology’, BELL: Belgian Journal of English Language and Literature, 1: 17-29.

Emmott, C. (2003) ‘Reading for pleasure: a cognitive poetic analysis of "twists in the tale" and other plot reversals in narrative texts’, in J. Gavins and G. Steen (eds), Cognitive Poetics in Practice, London: Routledge, pp. 145-59.

Emmott, C. (2003) ‘Constructing social space: sociocognitive factors in the interpretation of character relations’, in D. Herman (ed.), Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences, Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, pp. 295-321.

Gavins, J. (2000) 'Absurd tricks with bicycle frames in the text world of The Third Policeman', Nottingham Linguistic Circular, 15: 17-33 (available online).

Gavins, J. (2003) 'Too much blague? An exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White', in Gavins, J. and Steen, G. (eds) Cognitive Poetics in Practice, London: Routledge, pp. 129-144.

Gavins, J. (2005) '(Re)thinking modality: a text-world perspective', Journal of Literary Semantics, 34 (2): 79-93.

Gavins, J. (2005) 'Text World Theory in literary practice', in Petterson, B., Polvinen, M. and Veivo, H. (eds) Cognition in Literary Interpretation and Practice, Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, pp. 89-104.

Gavins, J. (forthcoming 2007) Text World Theory: An Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Gerrig, R. (1993) Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Hidalgo Downing, L. (2000) Negation, Text Worlds and Discourse: The Pragmatics of Fiction, Stanford: Ablex.

Hidalgo Downing, L. (2000) 'Negation in discourse: a text-world approach to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22', Language and Literature, 9 (4): 215-240.

Hidalgo Downing, L. (2000) 'Alice in pragmaticland: reference, deixis and the delimitation of text worlds in Lewis Carroll's Alice books', CLAC, 2 (available online).

Hidalgo Downing, L. (2002) 'Creating things that are not: the role of negation in the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska', Journal of Literary Semantics, 30 (2): 113-132.

Hidalgo Downing, L. (2003) 'Negation as a stylistic feature in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22: a corpus study', Style, 37 (3): 318-341.

Hidalgo Downing, L. (2003) 'Text world creation in advertising discourse', CLAC, 13 (available online).

Lahey, Ernestine (2003), ‘Seeing the forest for the trees in Al Purdy’s "Trees at the Arctic Circle"’, BELL: Belgian Journal of English Language and Literature, 1: 73-83.

Lahey, E. (2004) 'All the world's a subworld: direct speech and subworld creation in "After" by Norman MacCaig', Nottingham Linguistic Circular, 18: 21-28 (available online).

Ryan, M. L. (1991) Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Ryan, M. L. (1998) 'The text as world versus the text as game: possible worlds semantics and postmodern theory', Journal of Literary Semantics, 27 (3): 137-163.

Semino, E. (1997) Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts, London: Longman.

Semino, E. (2003) 'Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway's "A Very Short Story''', in Gavins, J. and Steen, G. (eds) Cognitive Poetics in Practice, London: Routledge, pp. 83-98.

Stockwell, P. (2002) Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, London: Routledge.

Stockwell, Peter (2005), ‘Texture and identification’, European Journal of English Studies, 9(2): 143-53.

Werth, P. (1994) 'Extended metaphor: a text world account', Language and Literature, 3 (2): 79-103.

Werth, P. (1995) 'How to build a world (in a lot less than six days and using only what's in your head)', in Green, K. (ed.) New Essays on Deixis: Discourse, Narrative, Literature, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Werth, P. (1995) '"World enough and time": deictic space and the interpretation of prose', in Verdonk, P. and Weber, J.J. (eds) Twentieth Century Fiction: From Text to Context, London: Routledge.

Werth, P. (1997) 'Conditionality as cognitive distance', in Athanasiadou, A. and Dirven, R. (eds) On Conditionals Again, Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 243-271.

Werth, P. (1997) 'Remote worlds: the conceptual representation of linguistic would', in Nuyts, J. and Pederson, E. (eds) Language and Conceptualization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-115.

Werth, P. (1999) Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space in Discourse, London: Longman.

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