What's the Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4387010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paisley Livingston (0000-0002-2748-9139, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 98 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685273 |
| OpenAlex | W2313186493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
It would seem, then, that one component of a fairly widespread type of literary expertise is the ability to make appropriate inferences about what does and does not happen in stories related by fictional, narrative discourses.1 I shall call this expertise story competence, and I want to propose that it can be modelled in part as the application of two kinds of heuristics, which I shall call the rationality and intentional heuristics. Story competence is partly a matter of what Joseph Magliano, Arthur Graesser and others have referred to as the on-line generation of inferences. The reader's immediate or quasi-immediate processing of a text is a necessary part of literary experience, but it does not alone constitute a self-sufficient and adequate form of expertise. Students and critics alike normally get a chance to think it over before they decide what they take a text, or some aspect of a text, to mean. Literary competence involves some automatic processes of punctual, on-line comprehension, but it also requires the ability to make and evaluate the right sorts of deliberative inferences and judgements, including interpretive decisions based on close scrutiny of, and meditation over, passages in a work that readers have already read one or more times. One good reason why our literary practices and standards involve reflective, deliberative inferences runs as follows. Readers cannot possibly make all of the inferences that follow validly from a text's most explicit
Competence (human resources) · Comprehension · Epistemology · Heuristics · Linguistics · Narrative · Scrutiny · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Mimesis as make-believe
The Nature of Fiction
Die Selbstorganisation des Sozialsystems Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert
Mental Models
The Nature of Fiction
Thought and Reference
Intentions and Interpretations
Literature and Rationality
A three-pronged method for studying inference generation in literary text
Artificial intelligence and the study of literary narrative
Story understanding as problem-solving
Literary expertise in the description of a fictional narrative
On the role of conventions in understanding literary texts
The definition of a story
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |