Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

From Poetics to Politics
Herausgeber: Hart, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

'Written by top scholars in cognitive stylistics, poetics, and critical discourse analysis, this groundbreaking collection shows the true breadth and potential of a "usage-based'' framework.' Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia Extends the territory of cognitive linguistics beyond the language system to consider texts and discourse in the traditions of cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis. Analysing a range of genres, including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter applies frameworks in Cognitive Linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis but also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as atext's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. The book takes new strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts. Key features . Contributions from scholars across cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis . Texts analysed include Percy Shelly's 'A Summer Evening Churchyard', Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, the Lord's Prayer, and Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising' . Applies a range of Cognitive Linguistic frameworks including Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Text World Theory and Cognitive Grammar Christopher Hart is Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. Cover image: © Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-4998-4 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781474449984
• ISBN-10: 1474449980
• Artikelnr.: 55394308

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Christopher Hart
Chapter 1: Shelley's Dominion: Subliminal and Ambient Tonal Effects Across
a Literary Work, Peter Stockwell
Chapter 2: A 'Half-Remembered Quality': Experiencing Disorientation and
Claustrophobia in The Goldfinch, Chloe Harrison
Chapter 3: Creativity and Cognition in the Discourse of National Trust
Holiday Cottage Guestbooks, Joanna Gavins and Sara Whiteley
Chapter 4: Metaphorical Descriptions of Pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia
Forum: Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics, Elena Semino
Chapter 5: Simulation in Deictic Space: Scenes and Episodes in the Lord's
Prayer, Jeremy Holland
Chapter 6: Cultural Responses to 9/11 and the Healing Power of Songs: A
Text-World-Theory Analysis of Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising", Laura
Filardo-Llamas
Chapter 7: A Nation Divided: Metaphors and Scenarios in Media Coverage of
the 2016 British EU Referendum, Veronika Koller and Josie Ryan
Chapter 8: 'That's Just What We Hear on Telly all the Time, Isn't It?'
Political Discourse and the Cognitive Linguistic Ethnography of Critical
Reception, Sam Browse
Chapter 9: Spatial Properties of ACTION Verb Semantics: Experimental
Evidence for Image Schema Orientation in Transitive vs. Reciprocal Verbs
and Its Implications for Ideology, Christopher Hart