Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts

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Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts

This article reports the findings of an empirical study that uses eye-tracking and follow-up interviews as methods to investigate how participants read body language clusters in novels by Charles Dickens. The study builds on previous corpus stylistic work that has identified patterns of body languag...

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Main Authors:	Mahlberg, Michaela, Conklin, Kathy, Bisson, Marie-Josée
Format:	Article
Published:	SAGE Publications 2014
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28881/

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