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In an ideal world, this chapter and the next would be printed and read side-by-side. To divide the topic of how we make headway in a text, I have arbitrarily taken the idea of orienting as a kind of macro-level, top-down approach, while filling gaps and making inferences is taken as occurring at the more local level of sentences and paragraphs. In reality, interpreters almost certainly oscillate between the two.
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© 2011 Margaret Mackey
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Mackey, M. (2011). Orienting: Finding the Way Forward. In: Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films, and Video Games. Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316621_6
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