Taking the perspective of narrative characters
A mouse-tracking study on the processing of ambiguous referring expressions in narrative discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19437064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorrig Vogels (0000-0001-6698-504X, University of Groningen), Sofia Bimpikou (0000-0002-6802-3650, University of Groningen), Owen Kapelle (0000-0002-4836-1302, University of Groningen), Emar Maier (0000-0002-3179-2923, University of Groningen) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages | 144-162 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics in the Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-7332 • E-ISSN: 1569-9919 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/avt.00054.vog |
| OpenAlex | W3211166196 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
An ongoing debate in the interpretation of referring expressions concerns the degree to which listeners make use of perspective information during referential processing. We aim to contribute to this debate by considering perspective shifting in narrative discourse. In a web-based mouse-tracking experiment in Dutch, we investigated whether listeners automatically shift to a narrative character’s perspective when resolving ambiguous referring expressions, and whether different linguistic perspective-shifting devices affect how and when listeners switch to another perspective. We compared perspective-neutral, direct, and free indirect discourse, manipulating which objects are visible to the character. Our results do not show a clear effect of the perspective shifting devices on participants’ eventual choice of referent, but our online mouse-tracking data reveal processing differences that suggest that listeners are indeed sensitive to the conventional markers of perspective shift associated with direct and (to a lesser degree) free indirect discourse
Cognitive psychology · Direct speech · Linguistics · Narrative · Referent · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems · Artificial Intelligence
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Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |