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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Page ix
... interpretations of texts. It is important to remember, for example, that Foregrounding theory (Mukaiovsky 1970), which ... interpretation. What is new about cognitive stylistics is the way in which linguistic analysis is systematically ...
... interpretations of texts. It is important to remember, for example, that Foregrounding theory (Mukaiovsky 1970), which ... interpretation. What is new about cognitive stylistics is the way in which linguistic analysis is systematically ...
Page x
... interpretations are arrived at, rather than proposing new interpretations of texts. In several chapters the analysis is partly aimed to account systematically for how the same (stretch of) text can give rise to different interpretations ...
... interpretations are arrived at, rather than proposing new interpretations of texts. In several chapters the analysis is partly aimed to account systematically for how the same (stretch of) text can give rise to different interpretations ...
Page xi
... interpretations of the relevant (stretches of ) texts. While some contributors hypothesize about likely or possible ... interpretation of metaphor, analogy and allegory in Christine de Pizan's 15th century text The Book of the City of ...
... interpretations of the relevant (stretches of ) texts. While some contributors hypothesize about likely or possible ... interpretation of metaphor, analogy and allegory in Christine de Pizan's 15th century text The Book of the City of ...
Page xii
... interpretation and other less basic levels, and also account for interpretative variability on the one hand and, on the other, the fact that not all interpretations are equally acceptable. This, she argues, “constitutes a much needed ...
... interpretation and other less basic levels, and also account for interpretative variability on the one hand and, on the other, the fact that not all interpretations are equally acceptable. This, she argues, “constitutes a much needed ...
Page xiv
... interpretation, as well as of the linguistic make-up of texts themselves. He focuses specifically on metaphorical language and its relationship with genre, and analyzes in detail the use of metaphor in the lyrics of Bob Dylan's song ...
... interpretation, as well as of the linguistic make-up of texts themselves. He focuses specifically on metaphorical language and its relationship with genre, and analyzes in detail the use of metaphor in the lyrics of Bob Dylan's song ...
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
| 95 |
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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