Deictic Close Reading

Network Analysis Between Distant Reading and Close Reading

The advent of “distant reading” methods has created the opportunity to look at texts in a new way. But with the shift from close to distant reading, there is also a danger of loosing sight of fine-grained text structure. Like any method, distant reading methodology is not theoretically neutral, but carries a bundle of presuppositions. In this paper, a new method of text network analysis is prop...

Close Reading and the Market Nicholas Brown

Why do we read literary texts closely? There are plenty of other things to do with literary texts, many of them more fun, some of them even interesting. But the interesting ones, though they may help us in our close reading, or may indeed challenge, limit, or secure its conditions of possibility, belong to other disciplines: psychology, linguistics, sociology of art, anthropology, area studies,...

Deictic teleassistance

Polly K. Pook and Dana H. Ballard Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0226 USA pook|[email protected] Abstract We present a simple sign language for teleassistance inspired by the work of the physiologist Nicolai Bernstein and by recent psychophysical evidence in hand-eye coordination. In our approach, a teleoperator uses hand signs to guide an otherwise ...

Deictic Referencing in VMT

Centered on a case study of a synchronous online interchange, this chapter discusses the use of the VMT graphical referencing tool in coordination with text chat to achieve a group orientation to a particular mathematical object in a shared whiteboard. Deictic referencing is seen to be a critical foundation of intersubjective cognitive processes that index objects of shared attention. The case ...

Explanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading: The Progress of Cognitive Poetics