Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysisElena Semino, Jonathan Culpeper This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative accounts of a range of literary and textual phenomena. The chapters cover a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, including poetry, fictional and non-fictional narratives, and plays. Some of the chapters provide new approaches to phenomena that have a long tradition in literary and linguistic studies (such as humour, characterisation, figurative language, and metre), others focus on phenomena that have not yet received adequate attention (such as split-selves phenomena, mind style, and spatial language). This book is relevant to students and scholars in a wide range of areas within linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. |
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... contexts and text types. The notion of humour captures the effects of some communicative stimulus on interpreters, and therefore requires an approach that includes both the stimulus (language in our case) and the cognitive structures ...
... contexts and text types. The notion of humour captures the effects of some communicative stimulus on interpreters, and therefore requires an approach that includes both the stimulus (language in our case) and the cognitive structures ...
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... context (however defined) in which a literary text is produced and consumed. Here criticism works from the outside inwards, taking, in the form of the new historicism, the view that context is as important as text, that historical and ...
... context (however defined) in which a literary text is produced and consumed. Here criticism works from the outside inwards, taking, in the form of the new historicism, the view that context is as important as text, that historical and ...
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... context—specific. Products or interpretations are context-specific, but our mental mechanisms are not. Second, directly studying the mind is not possible, not even with flVIRI devices that shows pictures of brains but not brains ...
... context—specific. Products or interpretations are context-specific, but our mental mechanisms are not. Second, directly studying the mind is not possible, not even with flVIRI devices that shows pictures of brains but not brains ...
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... contexts: humour, visual art, grammatical constructions, figurative language, literary discourse, mathematics, scientific concepts, religious symbols, and so on. What do es all this mean for literature? When reading a text like ...
... contexts: humour, visual art, grammatical constructions, figurative language, literary discourse, mathematics, scientific concepts, religious symbols, and so on. What do es all this mean for literature? When reading a text like ...
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... context of “men whom misfortune befell because they did not believe their wives” (138). Because Brutus did not listen to Portia, his wife, his decision to kill Caesar led in turn to his own death and the “resulting evil” that followed ...
... context of “men whom misfortune befell because they did not believe their wives” (138). Because Brutus did not listen to Portia, his wife, his decision to kill Caesar led in turn to his own death and the “resulting evil” that followed ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading | 73 |
Chapter 5 A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction
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Chapter 6 Between the lines | 123 |
Chapter 7 Split selves in ction and in medical life stories | 153 |
Chapter 8 Metaphor in Bob Dylans Hurricane | 183 |
Chapter 10 Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts | 231 |
Chapter 11 A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation | 251 |
Chapter 12 Aspects of Cognitive Poetics | 279 |
Afterword | 319 |
Notes | 323 |
References | 324 |
Name Index | 325 |
Subject Index | 329 |
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