Gareth Carrol
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gareth Carrol is involved.
2021 Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 307–338 | Chapter
Figurative language provides a testing bed for language processing in general, since it requires speakers to utilize a sophisticated range of linguistic, pragmatic and cognitive skills to derive an appropriate interpretation. The toolkit of psycholinguistics, where precise measurements of… read more
2019 Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction Scientific Study of Literature 9:1, pp. 3–33 | Article
We use eye tracking to investigate the attention readers pay to different textual features to determine their significance in the appreciation of prose fiction. Previous research examined attention allocation to lexical and punctuation variants, and the impact on reading dynamics for the… read more
2018 Contributions of semantic richness to the processing of idioms The Mental Lexicon 13:3, pp. 311–332 | Article
Idiom studies typically consider variables such as familiarity, decomposability and literal plausibility, and the contributions of these to how figurative phrases are processed are well established. In this study we consider the effect of a previously untested variable: semantic richness.… read more
2015 Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction Scientific Study of Literature 5:2, pp. 200–228 | Article
The digital era has brought with it a shift in the field of literary editing in terms of the amount and kind of textual variation that can reasonably be annotated by editors. However, questions remain about how far readers engage with textual variants, especially minor ones such as small-scale… read more