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Stories are to entertain: A structural-affect theory of stories
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brewer, W. F., & Lichtenstein, E. H.
- Venue
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1982-12
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 5-6
- Pages
- 473-486
- ISSN
- 0378-2166 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1978733802
- Cited by
- 399
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 458.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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