Immersion in digital fiction : a cognitive, empirical approach
- 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.
Author: | Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Isabelle van der Bom, Jen Smith |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484236 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v7i1.105 |
ISSN: | 2194-5594 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL |
Publisher: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
Place of publication: | Mainz, Germany |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/01/29 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/11/27 |
Tag: | Immersion; cognitive deixis; cognitive poetics; digital fiction; empirical; narratology; reader-response |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 22 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 22 |
Note: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
HeBIS-PPN: | 439984726 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | International journal of literary linguistics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-483647 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |