Oxford University Press

What happens when we view a movie? Do we actually see the fiction, and if so how? Literary fiction is recounted by a voice of some sort--the narrator. George M. Wilson explores the strategies of cinematic narration, and argues that this prompts viewers to imagine seeing and hearing events in the fictional world....

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The prevailing view in the voting behavior field maintains that citizens are too        ignorant about ideology and issues to vote on policy grounds. On Voter Competence        breaks sharply from this outlook by demonstrating that average citizens hold bedrock        policy principles and rely heavily on them to guide their presidential votes....

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Subjects and OperatorsThis book addresses the role complementizers (eg that in She said that she would)        and their phrases play in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of        language. Leading linguists and promising young scholars draw on analyses of a wide        range of languages to consider how complementizers behave in...

A complete biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes which shows the relationship between his nineteenth-century Boston Brahmin upbringing and his twentieth-century legal innovation. By examining Holmes's colourful life, White shows the connection between legal thought and cultural change....