The Linguistic Anchoring of Storyworld Possible Selves in Fictional Narrative Prose in English (SPSLingAnc)

<p><a>The aim of SPSLingAnc is to provide the analysis of complete fictional narratives in English, focusing on the presence and distribution of the linguistic expressions and constructions (tokens) which intervene in the subjective construal of storyworld possible selves (SPSs) – conceptual blends of a narrative perspectivizer and a real world narrative experiencer – in readers’ conceptualization of storyworlds. </a></p>

<p><a>SPSLingAnc1 comprises 91,328 words of fictional prose in English, analyzed using the MAXQDA 2022 software for mixed-methods analysis, with a total of 5,980 tagged tokens.</a></p>

<p><a>The present dataset has two parts. Part 1 contains the full analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, with 48,893 words and 2,708 analyzed tokens. Part 2 contains the full analysis of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, with 42,435 words and 3,159 analyzed tokens.</a></p>

<p><a>SPSLingAnc may be of interest to scholars and researchers with an interest in the interdisciplinary study of narrative intersubjectivity, particularly in the fields of narrative theory, literary criticism, cognitive literary linguistics, cognitive stylistics, cognitive poetics, narrative discourse analysis, cognitive semantics, communication studies, and empirical reader response research.</a></p>