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Welcome to our blog!

Welcome to studyingfiction! We are two university researchers interested in making links between cognitive linguistics and education. We have set up this blog to share our research and ideas, and...

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Attention in the Classroom!

Look at this image: what do you see? Well, what’s visible is either a framed black cross (against a white background), or four white boxes against a black background. As you look at the image, one part...

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The willing construction of disbelief

In our previous post, we discussed Richard Gerrig’s work on reading as a form of transportation. We argued that Gerrig’s ideas offer useful ideas for teachers to think about when planning lessons and...

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Transactions and worlds: Reading, interpretation and meaning

In this post, we step away from our previous few topics and come back to a question that we believe is a crucial one for anyone interested in the study of literature in schools: how does meaning arise?...

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Read some of our research here!

Here you can read two articles we have published together recently. The first appeared in English in Education in 2015 and the second in Changing English in December 2017. Both examine the nature of...

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NEWS! We’re writing a book!

We are delighted to announce that we will be writing a book based on our research and some of our blog posts, to be published by Routledge education! Cognitive linguistics, and specifically cognitive...

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