Sofia Bimpikou
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View article: Inside characters' minds
Inside characters' minds Open
We engage with stories daily, experiencing situations from the perspectives of different fictional characters. Language allows us to do this with the use of reports, that is, constructions representing what someone said, thought, or felt. …
View article: Taking the perspective of narrative characters
Taking the perspective of narrative characters Open
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 shift…
View article: The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports
The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports Open
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a re…
View article: Who Perceives? Who Thinks? Anchoring Free Reports of Perception and Thought in Narratives
Who Perceives? Who Thinks? Anchoring Free Reports of Perception and Thought in Narratives Open
This paper reports the results of four experiments that investigate how readers determine the perspective holder for free reports in narratives. Free reports can be interpreted as descriptions of someone’s perceptions or thoughts. I tested…
View article: Shifting perspectives in pictorial narratives
Shifting perspectives in pictorial narratives Open
We propose an extension of DRT for analyzing pictorial narratives. We test drive our PicDRT framework by analyzing the way authors represent characters’ mental states and perception in comics. Our investigation goes beyond Abusch and Rooth…
View article: Anchoring Free Indirect Discourse and Viewpoint Shifting
Anchoring Free Indirect Discourse and Viewpoint Shifting Open
This paper reports the results of four experiments that investigated how readers determine the anchor for free reports in narratives, i.e. descriptions of someone’s perceptions (Viewpoint Shifting) or thoughts (Free Indirect Discourse) tha…