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Introspection enables readers to access the fictional world through the character’s mind and senses, helping decode the writer’s cultural message. The work distinguishes introspection from related inner-reality categories such as flashbacks, flashforwards, internal point of view, and stream-of-consciousness imitation. 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Yesenin  \nRyazan, Russia  \nE-mail: [ofedotova81@mail.ru](ofedotova81@mail.ru)  \nAbstract—The paper presents introspection as selfexamination by a fiction personage of his / her inner emotional, mental or physical state. With the help of introspection the reader can perceive the fictional world through the character’s mind and senses, which helps to better decode the writer’s message. Introspection should be distinguished from other categories used to describe the inner reality of a fiction character: character’s flashbacks and flashforwards, presentation of the character’s internal point of view, or the imitation of the character’s stream of consciousness. Being part of virtual reality in fiction, introspection is a narrower notion, which embraces only the inner world of the character. The functions of introspection and the language markers that help to recognize introspection in the text are discussed. It is shown that apart from some obvious introspection markers like verbs, nouns and adjectives pertaining the semantic spheres of mental, intellectual and emotional manifestations, reference to the character’s inner world makes the writer resort on a larger scale to figures of speech and conceptual metaphors. Introspection can be viewed as a text category in its own right as it performs functions of its own and has a peculiar set of cognitive and language means to represent it in the text.  \nKeywords—narratology; text category; introspection; inner reality of characters; fictional reality; virtual reality; functions of introspection; language markers; conceptual metaphor  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \nThe study of different forms of reality in fiction is a comparatively recent development in narratology. Apart from fictional reality (dreams, flashforwards, etc.) there is another fruitful domain of research, namely the study of the inner reality of characters [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] . The inner world of a personage as part of the many-dimensional narrative reality structure needs further investigation as it has not been subjected to systematic study yet. The paper centers on introspection as self-examination by a fiction personage of his / her inner emotional, mental or physical state. With the help of introspection the reader can perceive the fictional world through the character‟s mind and senses, which helps to better decode the writer‟s cultural message. Introspection of a character is different from interior monologue and other forms of inner speech. To make our idea more explicit let us consider some examples.  \n􀁸 (1) He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness. He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back [6] .  \nIn this example we get an insight into the inner world of a personage who is analyzing the change of his emotional state. Such figures of speech as metaphors (he felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself) and simile (like a tallow skin) reveal the change of disposition of the protagonist. The comparison of the character‟s inner state with the flame of a candle (like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out) shows that fire is as changeable as the emotional state of the personage. However, the following words can hardly be referred to the examination of the character‟s thoughts and feelings as it is an obvious case of inner speech. Repetition (He was not happy) and the opposition of light and darkness add to the impression of despair, which is not mad","cbCainNFHFKOtOw2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainNFHFKOtOw2","pdf",2521886,"English","# Introduction\n## Introspection as inner reality in fiction\n## Distinguishing introspection from other inner-reality forms\n## Language markers and conceptual metaphors","[{\"question\":\"What does introspection mean in this paper?\",\"answer\":\"Introspection is defined as a fiction character’s self-examination of inner emotional, mental, or physical states.\"},{\"question\":\"How does introspection help readers understand fiction?\",\"answer\":\"It lets readers perceive the fictional world through the character’s mind and senses, which helps decode the writer’s cultural message.\"},{\"question\":\"Which language markers can indicate introspection in the text?\",\"answer\":\"The paper highlights semantic-sphere words such as verbs, nouns, and adjectives related to mental, intellectual, and emotional manifestations, and it also discusses figurative speech and conceptual metaphors used on a larger scale.\"}]","Introspection of Characters in Fiction - Cultural Aspect | PDF",1792209961]