TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bell, Alice
A1  - Ensslin, Astrid
A1  - Bom, Isabelle van der
A1  - Smith, Jen
T1  - Immersion in digital fiction : a cognitive, empirical approach
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - 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.
KW  - Immersion
KW  - empirical
KW  - cognitive deixis
KW  - reader-response
KW  - digital fiction
KW  - cognitive poetics
KW  - narratology
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48423
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484236
SN  - 2194-5594
N1  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 22
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz, Germany
ER  -