Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
Published 2017-10-30
Keywords
- narrative tension,
- cognitive and emotive,
- trigger,
- emotive signal,
- emotive situation
- emotive topic ...More
Abstract
In this article the narrative tension is conceptualized as a complex, multi-layered construal, formed by universal, generic and inner-textual tension. The latter is thought as a result of actualization of some semantic triggers inducing cognitive and affective response to the structural and semantic texture. Special attention is given to the analysis of the emotive triggers which are considered as a type of textual descriptions comprising emotive information and activating reader’s affective responses of curiosity, suspense and surprise. The emotive triggers are represented by emotive signals, situations and topics.