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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... semantics, then a conceptual integration model is needed to point out these aspects of the figure under scrutiny. In short, “blending theory” and conceptual metaphor theory are “complementary” means for accounting for similar kinds of ...
... semantics, then a conceptual integration model is needed to point out these aspects of the figure under scrutiny. In short, “blending theory” and conceptual metaphor theory are “complementary” means for accounting for similar kinds of ...
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... semantics. She wanted it to mean what she said it meant: sufficient dawn, total dawn, permanent dawn. Other defects are caused by the syllable count: it forces the misleading parallel placement of 'better,' one as a line stop, the other ...
... semantics. She wanted it to mean what she said it meant: sufficient dawn, total dawn, permanent dawn. Other defects are caused by the syllable count: it forces the misleading parallel placement of 'better,' one as a line stop, the other ...
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... semantic as well as syntactic chiasmic equivalence: Surmising Robins (Never gladdened Tree) Solid Dawn (Leading to no Day) Confronting SWW'S The parallelisms throughout the poem adhere to a fairly strict pattern of exact equivalences in ...
... semantic as well as syntactic chiasmic equivalence: Surmising Robins (Never gladdened Tree) Solid Dawn (Leading to no Day) Confronting SWW'S The parallelisms throughout the poem adhere to a fairly strict pattern of exact equivalences in ...
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... semantic equivalence as well. “Dreaming” and “Surmising” both carry equivalent complements. Just as dreaming can create the dawn, surmising can create robins, which themselves can make something happen (gladden tree). In contrast ...
... semantic equivalence as well. “Dreaming” and “Surmising” both carry equivalent complements. Just as dreaming can create the dawn, surmising can create robins, which themselves can make something happen (gladden tree). In contrast ...
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... semantics but of her entire grammar. I argue, in fact, that to properly “read” a Dickinson poem, one needs to know her grammar, and that this means not just in the sense of“compositional” grammar but in the sense of Fillmore's frame ...
... semantics but of her entire grammar. I argue, in fact, that to properly “read” a Dickinson poem, one needs to know her grammar, and that this means not just in the sense of“compositional” grammar but in the sense of Fillmore's frame ...
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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