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Book Review: Language in Literature. An Introduction to Stylistics

that the reader needs to have or, indeed, is able to have all these contexts in some state of activation in his or her consciousness. This would suggest that the complete current text model would always be available for access, whereas it is just as likely that it is (re)constructed according to the needs of online processing. Narrative discourse does not have to equal narrative comprehension. Chapter 8 develops another aspect of the mental model approach and capitalizes on the distinction between framed and unframed text. Contextual frames involve specific settings and hence provide a baseline for distinguishing between types of text in narrative. General statements in a narrative text, of a descriptive or argumentative kind, are not framed and form stretches of a different type of discourse within the story. Consequences for reference assignment and possibilities for the classification of non-narrative discourse are pointed out at the end of the chapter. The book ends by presenting a summary of the research and pointing out some directions for future work in linguistics and psychology. It returns to the theme of closing the gap between the two disciplines in the hope that the book has been a contribution to this effort. Despite my reservations, I believe that it certainly has and can heartily recommend it to researchers from both traditions. Gerard Steen Tilburg University, The Netherlands