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text world theory: a standalone construct

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a model of discourse processing in which readers build mental text worlds from a text's cues and their own knowledge.

In stylistics, text world theory refers to a model of discourse processing in which readers build mental text worlds from a text's cues and their own knowledge. This meaning comes from Werth (1999) in Text Worlds.[1]

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discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs model3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Werth, P. (1999). Text Worlds. Longman. ISBN 9780582229150

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