Abstract
In this chapter, we outline a participatory perspective on readers' experiences of narrative. The perspective asserts that readers function as side participants to narrative events: They encode participatory responses as reactions to characters' utterances and actions. We review a series of empirical projects that illustrate consequences of reader participation. Those projects demonstrate, for example, that the preferences readers develop for particular narrative outcomes affect the time course with which readers assimilate the outcomes that actually obtain. The body of empirical work supports the importance of the participatory perspective to enrich theories of text processing.
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