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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... novel IT. The analysis shows that the use of spatial language in the speech of the main characters as adults is more ... novels and the autobiographies of two stroke victims). Emmott highlights the wide range of split selves phenomena ...
... novel IT. The analysis shows that the use of spatial language in the speech of the main characters as adults is more ... novels and the autobiographies of two stroke victims). Emmott highlights the wide range of split selves phenomena ...
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... novel metaphors in language often reflecting conventional metaphors in thought. In eroding classical boundaries between figures of thought and figures of speech, personification is fascinating from a cognitive viewpoint. Personification ...
... novel metaphors in language often reflecting conventional metaphors in thought. In eroding classical boundaries between figures of thought and figures of speech, personification is fascinating from a cognitive viewpoint. Personification ...
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... novel than poem is not the least ofthe problems with this last statement. Of course, given its subject matter, a richly illustrated medieval text such as de Pizan's can and ought to be correctly identified as “allegorical” (cf. Nichols ...
... novel than poem is not the least ofthe problems with this last statement. Of course, given its subject matter, a richly illustrated medieval text such as de Pizan's can and ought to be correctly identified as “allegorical” (cf. Nichols ...
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... novel uniqueness of literary creativity. What it can do, as I have tried to show in this paper, is illuminate those imaginative capabilities that enable poetry to happen. for example, discussion ofthe debate between Kant and the ...
... novel uniqueness of literary creativity. What it can do, as I have tried to show in this paper, is illuminate those imaginative capabilities that enable poetry to happen. for example, discussion ofthe debate between Kant and the ...
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... a nameless first-person narrator undertakes in the absence of his friend and fellow critic George Corvick, the task of reviewing the latest novel by Hugh Vereker, a renowned living writer. When soon afterwards the. 50 Yanna Popova.
... a nameless first-person narrator undertakes in the absence of his friend and fellow critic George Corvick, the task of reviewing the latest novel by Hugh Vereker, a renowned living writer. When soon afterwards the. 50 Yanna Popova.
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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