Possible worlds of a literary text character: a cognitive and quantitative linguistic approach

• Published in: Cognition, communication, discourse no. 22; pp. 59 - 76
• Main Author: Pavkin, Dmytro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 02.08.2021
• Subjects: basic propositional schema; character; coverage rate; evaluation; mean frequency; narrative concept; possible worlds; primary / secondary possible worlds; semantics of lingual networks

The article aims to forward a model for analyzing the evaluative component of controversial literary characters. This model presupposes the application of the basic tenets of the possible worlds theory to the analysis of a fiction text, combining it with the methodology of cognitive and quantitative...