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Transformative Reading
Olivia Fialho
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 42] 2024
► pp. 255–259

Appendix 3
Probing the corpus

Article outline
  • Type I.External enactment: Text interpretation
    • a.Text segmentation
    • b.Personal deixis
    • c.Modals and adverbs lower the intensity and hedge self- realizations
    • d.Processes
  • Type II.As-if enactment: Protagonist-centered self-implication and “sympathetic pity” for the narrative
    • a.Adjectives of negative evaluation modified by adverbs of intensity
    • b.Personal deixis
    • c.Conditional form
    • d.Vivid imagery
  • Type III.Expressive enactment: Situation-centered self-transformation and “tough love” for the narrative
    • a.Personal deixis
    • b.Processes
    • c.Indeterminacy or vague language: Hedges, softening modals or appraisal items
  • Type IV.Total enactment: Protagonist-centered self-transformation and “compassionate love” for the narrative
    • a.Personal deixis