This article argues that a theory of media selectivity needs a theory of attention, because attention to a media stimulus is the starting point of each process of reception...
Keywords: reception, selection, attention, eye-tracking, newspaper, online newspaper
09/2006 | Communications, Walter de GruyterWe describe the space structuring model, a model of language comprehension inspired by ideas in cognitive linguistics, focusing on its capacity to explain the sorts of inferences needed to understand one-line jokes...
Keywords: Cognitive semantics, eye-tracking, frame-shifting, joke comprehension
08/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter