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Mind style and cognitive grammar language and worldview in speculative fiction / Louise Nuttall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nuttall, Louise, author.
- Series:
- Advances in stylistics.
- Advances in stylistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive grammar.
- Discourse analysis, Literary--Psychological aspects.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
- Language and languages--Style--Psychological aspects.
- Language and languages.
- Literary style--Psychological aspects.
- Literary style.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances our understanding of mind style: the experience of other minds, or worldviews, through language in literature. This book is the first to set out a detailed, unified framework for the analysis of mind style using the account of language and cognition set out in cognitive grammar. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, Louise Nuttall aims to explain how character and narrator minds are created linguistically, with a focus on the strange minds encountered in the genre of speculative fiction. Previous analyses of mind style are reconsidered using cognitive grammar, alongside original analyses of four novels by Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Richard Matheson and J.G. Ballard. Responses to the texts in online forums and literary critical studies ground the analyses in the experiences of readers, and support an investigation of this effect as an embodied experience cued by the language of a text. Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances both stylistics and cognitive linguistics, whilst offering new insights for research in speculative fiction."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mind style
- Cognitive grammar
- Syntax and thought
- Lexis and knowledge
- Transitivity and worldview
- Metaphor and mind
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain 2018. Paperback edition published 2020"--T.p. verso
- Includes bibliographical references
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781350010567
- 1350010561
- 9781350010543
- 1350010545
- OCLC:
- 1019842909
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