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Cognitive stylistics : language and cognition in text analysis

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 lit
eBook, English, ©2002
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., Amsterdam, ©2002
1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : illustrations
9789027296269, 9781588112996, 9781588113009, 9781282161030, 9786612161032, 902729626X, 1588112993, 1588113000, 1282161032, 6612161035
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Print version:
Cognitive Stylistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Conceptual integration in Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies; Chapter 2 The body in the word; Chapter 3 The Figure in the Carpet; Chapter 4 Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading; Chapter 5 A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative .ction; Chapter 6 Between the lines; Chapter 7 "Split selves" in .ction and in medical "life stories"; Chapter 8 Metaphor in Bob Dylan's "Hurricane"; Chapter 9 Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity
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