World building : discourse in the mind / edited by Joanna Gavins and Ernestine Lahey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gavins, Joanna, editor.

Lahey, Ernestine, editor.

Series:

Advances in stylistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Summary:

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last forty years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary theory. The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds' and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants. But how best do we document and analyze this? This book is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 World Building in Discourse / Joanna Gavins Gavins, Joanna, Ernestine Lahey Lahey, Ernestine 1

2 "I felt like I'd stepped out of a different reality": Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction / Alice Bell Bell, Alice 15

3 Author-Character Ethos in Dan Brown's Langdon-Series Novels / Ernestine Lahey Lahey, Ernestine 33

4 Building More-Than-Human Worlds: Umwelt Modelling in Animal Narratives / David Herman Herman, David 53

5 Building Hollywood in Paddington: Text World Theory, Immersive Theatre, and Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man / Alison Gibbons Gibbons, Alison 71

6 Speaker Enactors in Oral Narrative / Isabelle van der Bom Bom, Isabelle van der 91

7 Text World Theory as Cognitive Grammatics: A Pedagogical Application in the Secondary Classroom / Marcello Giovanelli Giovanelli, Marcello 109

8 Worlds from Words: Theories of World-building as Creative Writing Toolbox / Jeremy Scott Scott, Jeremy 127

9 The Texture of Authorial Intention / Peter Stockwell Stockwell, Peter 147

10 Building Resonant Worlds: Experiencing the Text-Worlds of The Unconsoled / Sara Whiteley Whiteley, Sara 165

11 'This is not the end of the world': Situating Metaphor in the Text-Worlds of the 2008 British Financial Crisis / Sam Browse Browse, Sam 183

12 The Humorous Worlds of Film Comedy / Agnes Marszalek Marszalek, Agnes 203

13 Spanglish Dialogue in You and Me: An Absurd World and Senile Mind Style / Jane Lugea Lugea, Jane 221

14 Autofocus and Remote Text-World Building in the Earliest English Narrative Poetry / Antonina Harbus Harbus, Antonina 241

15 'Into the Futures of their Makers': A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Reversals, Accelerations and Shifts in Time in the Poems of Eavan Boland / Nigel McLoughlin McLoughlin, Nigel 259

16 Stylistic Interanimation and Apophatic Poetics in Jacob Polley's 'Hide and Seek' / Joanna Gavins Gavins, Joanna 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472586537

1472586530

OCLC:

950962746