Vera Tobin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vera Tobin is involved.

Articles

Tobin, Vera 2012 Joint attention, To the Lighthouse, and modernist representations of intersubjectivity Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics, Dancygier, Barbara, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 45–62 | Article

This paper argues that literary modernism can be productively understood as a reflection on what happens when joint attention is frustrated in its operation. Experimental fictions of the early twentieth century frequently dramatize problems of joint attention that can be traced to the ultimate… read more

Tobin, Vera 2010 Joint attention, To the Lighthouse, and modernist representations of intersubjectivity Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form, Dancygier, Barbara and José Sanders (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Article

This paper argues that literary modernism can be productively understood as a reflection on what happens when joint attention is frustrated in its operation. Experimental fictions of the early twentieth century frequently dramatize problems of joint attention that can be traced to the ultimate… read more