Cognitive stylistics : language and cognition in text analysis / edited by Elena Semino, Jonathan Culpeper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Semino, Elena, 1964-

Culpeper, Jonathan, 1966-

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 1.

Linguistic approaches to literature, 1569-3112 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Style--Psychological aspects.

Language and languages.

Cognitive grammar.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Physical Description:

xvi, 333 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cognitive Stylistics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

References

Chapter 1 Conceptual integration in Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies

Chapter 2 The body in the word

Notes

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"

Bibliography

Chapter 8 Metaphor in Bob Dylan's "Hurricane"

Chapter 9 Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity

Note

Chapter 10 Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts

Chapter 11 A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation

Chapter 12 Aspects of Cognitive Poetics

Afterword

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161032

9781282161030

1282161032

9789027296269

902729626X

OCLC:

56118016