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My research is about empathy - and emotions generally - and literature. What is it that can make us feel real emotions for characters who don't exist? Taking a cross-disciplinary approach involving… read more

Current Research

My research is about empathy - and emotions generally - and literature. What is it that can make us feel real emotions for characters who don't exist? Taking a cross-disciplinary approach involving stylistics, cognitive linguistics and social psychology, I hope to further our understanding of the topic generally, and also to identify ways in which this increased understanding could be used to help motivate young readers.

Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics

The University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

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email: cral@nottingham.ac.uk