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.

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Author:Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Isabelle van der Bom, Jen Smith
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
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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
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Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0