{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,28]],"date-time":"2026-03-28T18:09:18Z","timestamp":1774721358320,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":44,"publisher":"Oxford University Press (OUP)","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,4]],"date-time":"2023-11-04T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1699056000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/pages\/standard-publication-reuse-rights"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,2]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p>Bringing together narrative elements, virtual affordances, and participants\u2019 embodied interactions, virtual reality (VR) movies instantiate new narrative techniques by offering an immersive experience. This study examines virtual narrative beyond mere interactional engagement and extends the phenomenon to include worlding, metaleptic embodiment, and instantiated possible selves. It aims at exploring VR narrative as idiosyncratic cognitive processes, with a special focus on the notions of empathy and emotional involvement as significant elements contributing to this peculiar interactional and cognitive experience. A cognitive stylistic approach is adopted to explain the functional ability of VR technology in transporting participants to alternate worlds and in making them experience a kind of self-transformation. The immersively metaleptic discourse of Baba Yaga is examined as engaging participants in a quest of how to act as morally and socially empathetic and responsible citizens\u2014global citizens. Baba Yaga narrative deploys the narrative discourses of flashbacks, facework, doubly deictic \u2018you\u2019, performatives, and imperatives along with material processes to situate participants in a virtual space of actions and doings and hence encourage them to configure their desired self(ves) across different immersive interactions. The global citizen is embodied in the interactive narrative of Baba Yaga, through invoking various storyworld possible selves (SPSs): the feeling self, the responsible self, and the moral self, which encompasses climate activist self and interculturally aware self who manages to get rid of its own cultural biases as the narrative proceeds. Embodied in these selves, participants transform the virtual world into possible worlds of their own passion, agency, choices, hopes, and desires.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/llc\/fqad078","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,8]],"date-time":"2023-11-08T04:09:14Z","timestamp":1699416554000},"page":"124-141","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["VR as a metaleptic possible world of global citizenship embodiment: a cognitive stylistic approach"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"39","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3638-0514","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rania Magdi","family":"Fawzy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Languages, College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Heliopolis , Cairo, Egypt"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2","DOI":"10.1007\/s10055-003-0114-9","article-title":"Towards a Narrative Theory of Virtual Reality","volume":"7","author":"Aylett","year":"2003","journal-title":"Virtual Reality"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B2","volume-title":"Directed by Eric Darnell","author":"Baba","year":"2020"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"601","DOI":"10.3389\/fnhum.2016.00601","article-title":"Virtual Embodiment of White People in a Black Virtual Body Leads to a Sustained Reduction in their Implicit Racial Bias\u2019,","volume":"10","author":"Banakou","year":"2016","journal-title":"Frontiers in Human Neuroscience"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B4","volume-title":"Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness","author":"Baron-Cohen","year":"2012"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"166","DOI":"10.1353\/jnt.2012.0005","article-title":"Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology","volume":"42","author":"Bell","year":"2012","journal-title":"Journal of Narrative Theory"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"311","DOI":"10.1353\/nar.2011.0020","article-title":"\u201cI know what it was. You know what it was\u201d: Second-person Narration in Hypertext Fiction","volume":"19","author":"Bell","year":"2011","journal-title":"Narrative"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"24","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tics.2016.11.004","article-title":"Empathy and its discontents","volume":"21","author":"Bloom","year":"2017","journal-title":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B9","first-page":"9","volume-title":"Speech, Place, and Action","author":"B\u00fchler","year":"1982"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-030-72907-3","volume-title":"Virtual Reality, Empathy and Ethics","author":"Cotton","year":"2021"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B12","author":"Cutler","year":"2020"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1515\/9781474467834","volume-title":"An Introduction to Global Citizenship","author":"Dower","year":"2003"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B14","first-page":"155","volume-title":"New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality","author":"Ensslin","year":"2009"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"411","DOI":"10.4324\/9781003100157-39","volume-title":"The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory","author":"Ensslin","year":"2022"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B17","volume-title":"Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis","author":"Ensslin","year":"2021"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B5187966","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"123","DOI":"10.1080\/14708477.2022.2159036","article-title":"Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters',","volume":"23","author":"Fawzy","journal-title":"Language and Intercultural Communication"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101","DOI":"10.1515\/9783110255003.101","volume-title":"Current Trends in Narratology","author":"Fludernik","year":"2011"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B20","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1515\/9780748629909","volume-title":"Text World Theory: An Introduction","author":"Gavins","year":"2007"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B21","first-page":"1","volume-title":"Discourse in the Mind","author":"Gavins","year":"2016"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B22","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1080\/09502386.2020.1761415","article-title":"Feeling Good: Humanitarian Virtual Reality Film, Emotional Style and Global Citizenship\u2019","volume":"36","author":"Gruenewald","year":"2020","journal-title":"Cultural Studies"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B23","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-030-38478-4","volume-title":"Virtual Existentialism: Meaning and Subjectivity in Virtual Worlds","author":"Gualeni","year":"2020"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B24","volume-title":"An Introduction to Functional Grammar","author":"Halliday","year":"1994"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B25","first-page":"74","author":"Han","year":"1998"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B26","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e0174965","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0174965","article-title":"Virtual Race Transformation Reverses Racial In-Group Bias","volume":"12","author":"Hasler","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLoS ONE"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B27","volume-title":"Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds","author":"Holland","year":"1998"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B28","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"127","DOI":"10.1525\/eth.2004.32.2.127","article-title":"Ethnographic Studies in Positioning and Subjectivity: An Introduction","volume":"32","author":"Holland","year":"2004","journal-title":"Ethos"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B29","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.4324\/9781003039174","volume-title":"Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural","author":"Holliday","year":"2021"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B30","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"343","DOI":"10.1177\/147035720200100306","article-title":"Colour as a Semiotic Mode: Notes for a Grammar of Colour","volume":"1","author":"Kress","year":"2002","journal-title":"Visual Communication"},{"issue":"1","key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1468-2885.2004.tb00302.x","article-title":"Presence, Explicated","volume":"14","author":"Lee","year":"2004","journal-title":"Communication Theory"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B32","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.3389\/frobt.2016.00003","article-title":"Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-Technology","volume":"3","author":"Madary","year":"2016","journal-title":"Frontiers in Robotics and AI"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B33","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"937","DOI":"10.1007\/s10648-020-09586-2","article-title":"The Cognitive Affective Model of Immersive Learning (CAMIL): A Theoretical Research-Based Model of Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality","volume":"33","author":"Makransky","year":"2021","journal-title":"Educational Psychology Review"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B34","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"954","DOI":"10.1037\/0003-066X.41.9.954","article-title":"Possible Selves","volume":"41","author":"Markus","year":"1986","journal-title":"American Psychologist"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B35","first-page":"211","volume-title":"Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology","author":"Markus","year":"1989"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B36","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"110","DOI":"10.1353\/nar.2014.0004","article-title":"Storyworld Possible Selves and the Phenomenon of Narrative Immersion: Testing a New Theoretical Construct","volume":"22","author":"Mart\u00ednez","year":"2014","journal-title":"Narrative"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1515\/9783110571028","volume-title":"Storyworld Possible Selves","author":"Mart\u00ednez","year":"2018"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B38","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"140","DOI":"10.1002\/9781118458204.ch7","volume-title":"The Handbook of Narrative Analysis","author":"Perrino","year":"2015"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B39","first-page":"439","article-title":"Metaleptic Machines","volume":"150","author":"Ryan","year":"2004","journal-title":"Semiotica"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B40","volume-title":"Avatars of Story","author":"Ryan","year":"2006"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B41","author":"Ryan","year":"2014","journal-title":"Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B42","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2692","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-018-19987-7","article-title":"Offenders Become the Victim in Virtual Reality: Impact of Changing Perspective in Domestic Violence","volume":"8","author":"Seinfeld","year":"2018","journal-title":"Scientific Reports"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B0716446880","volume-title":"The fall of public man","author":"Sennett","year":"2002"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B43","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.4324\/9780203945735","volume-title":"The Ethics of Care and Empathy","author":"Slote","year":"2007"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B44","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.3389\/frvir.2021.656423","article-title":"A Postphenomenological Framework for Studying User Experience of Immersive Virtual Reality","volume":"2","author":"Vindenes","year":"2021","journal-title":"Frontiers in Virtual Reality"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B45","volume-title":"Texts Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space in Discourse","author":"Werth","year":"1999"},{"key":"2024040210383827400_fqad078-B46","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"358","DOI":"10.1080\/14708477.2010.497556","article-title":"The Role of Transnational NGOs in Promoting Global Citizenship and Globalizing Communication Practices","volume":"10","author":"Witteborn","year":"2010","journal-title":"Language and Intercultural Communication"}],"container-title":["Digital Scholarship in the Humanities"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/dsh\/article-pdf\/39\/1\/124\/57134669\/fqad078.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/dsh\/article-pdf\/39\/1\/124\/57134669\/fqad078.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,2]],"date-time":"2024-04-02T13:58:31Z","timestamp":1712066311000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/dsh\/article\/39\/1\/124\/7343279"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,4]]},"references-count":44,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,4]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,2]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/llc\/fqad078","relation":{},"ISSN":["2055-7671","2055-768X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2055-7671","type":"print"},{"value":"2055-768X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published-other":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,1]]},"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,4]]}}}