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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... knowledge domains and conceptual metaphors that make up Dickinson's conceptual universe. Freeman emphasizes that “cognitive poetics has explanatory power,” in that it is able to explain how meanings are created in the production and ...
... knowledge domains and conceptual metaphors that make up Dickinson's conceptual universe. Freeman emphasizes that “cognitive poetics has explanatory power,” in that it is able to explain how meanings are created in the production and ...
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... knowledge of the world, and in de Pizan's text we would be unable to understand these personified characters without cross-domain mappings. Specifically, the three ladies are cases of abstract personification, which. Conceptual ...
... knowledge of the world, and in de Pizan's text we would be unable to understand these personified characters without cross-domain mappings. Specifically, the three ladies are cases of abstract personification, which. Conceptual ...
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... knowledge to which it is indexed” (1997: 1057). In extremely subtle ways, our “French” frame would be indexed to Sicambrians, and we would then continue reading unproblematically after coming across the previously unknown entity. Why ...
... knowledge to which it is indexed” (1997: 1057). In extremely subtle ways, our “French” frame would be indexed to Sicambrians, and we would then continue reading unproblematically after coming across the previously unknown entity. Why ...
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... knowledge today. Expert readers or critics are, of course, those whose knowledge forever opens the possibilities about what targets for mappings are possible. In fact, one can look at the entire enterprise of teaching literature as a ...
... knowledge today. Expert readers or critics are, of course, those whose knowledge forever opens the possibilities about what targets for mappings are possible. In fact, one can look at the entire enterprise of teaching literature as a ...
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... knowledge domains that inform Dickinson's choice of language and that constitute the metaphorical framework of what I have called elsewhere Dickinson's conceptual universe (Freeman 1995). In the following sections, I describe in detail ...
... knowledge domains that inform Dickinson's choice of language and that constitute the metaphorical framework of what I have called elsewhere Dickinson's conceptual universe (Freeman 1995). In the following sections, I describe in detail ...
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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