Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot. Harvard University Press. MORE INFO
Articles, Book Chapters, Essays, and Reviews
2023
“SLABERTA Talk Pretty One Day: Modeling Second Language Acquisition with BERT.”
ACL 2023. Forthcoming. With Aditya Yadavalli and Alekhya Yadavalli.
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2022
“Narrative and Plot: Unreliable Feelings and the Risks of Surprise.”
In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. Routledge.
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2021
“Where Irony Goes: Routinization and the Collapse of Viewpoint Configurations.”
Chinese Semiotic Studies, 17(2).
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“The Art of the Plot Twist.”
Essay in AEON Magazine.
Article
2020
“Experimental Investigations of Irony as a Viewpoint Phenomenon.”
In The Diversity of Irony. Eds. Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston. DeGruyter Methuen.
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Review of New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface. LaMiCuS 4: 228-235.
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2019
“The Elements of Surprise.” Essay in The Neat Review.
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2017
“Viewpoint, Misdirection, and Sound Design in Film: The Conversation.”
Journal of Pragmatics, 122: 24-34.
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“What We Talk About When We Talk About Texts.” Semiotica,
(215): 119-141. With Todd Oakley.
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2016
“Performance, Irony, and Viewpoint in Language.”
In Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies.
Eds. Amy Cook and Rhonda Blair. London: Bloomsbury Methuen.
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2015
“An Afterthought on Let Alone.” Journal of Pragmatics. 80:70-85.
With Bert Chappelle and Edwige Dugas.
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2014
“Readers as Overhearers and Texts as Objects: Joint Attention in Reading
Communities.” SCRIPTA, vol. 18, no. 34.
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“Where Do Cognitive Biases Fit Into Cognitive Linguistics?
An Example from the ‘Curse of Knowledge.’” Language and the Creative Mind.
Eds. Barbara Dancygier, Mike Borkent, and Jennifer Hinnell. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
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2012
“Attention, Blending, and Suspense in Classic and Experimental Film.”
In Blending and the Study of Narrative. Eds. Ralf Schneider and Marcus Hartner.
57-83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. With Todd Oakley.
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“Irony as a Viewpoint Phenomenon.” In Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective.
Eds. Eve Sweetser and Barbara Dancygier. 25-46. Cambridge University Press. With
Michael Israel.
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“The Whole is Sometimes Less than the Sum of Its Parts:
Toward a Theory of Document Acts.” Language and Cognition, vol. 6, no. 1. With
Todd Oakley.
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2010
“Grammatical and Rhetorical Consequences of Entrenchment in Conceptual Blending.”
In Meaning, Form, and Body. Eds. Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner.
Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
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“Joint Attention, To the Lighthouse, and Modernist Representations of
Intersubjectivity.” English Text Construction, vol. 3, no. 2.
Reprinted in
Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitve Linguistics, 2012. Eds.
Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders, and Lieven Vandelanotte. John Benjamins.
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2009
“Cognitive Bias and the Poetics of Surprise.” Language and Literature, vol. 18, no. 2
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2006
“Ways of Reading Sherlock Holmes.” Language and Literature, vol. 15, no. 1
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