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Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar
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.
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Worlds of written discourse : a genre-based view
\"This book addresses this theme from the perspectives of four rather different worlds: the world of reality, the world of private intentions, and world of analysis and the world of applications.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Caribbean Literary Discourse
A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized
languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as
reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative
writers
Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world
of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of
the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean. In these societies,
the language of the master— English in Jamaica and
Barbados—overlies the Creole languages of the majority. As
literary critics and as creative writers, Barbara Lalla, Jean
D’Costa, and Velma Pollard engage historical, linguistic,
and literary perspectives to investigate the literature bred by
this complex history. They trace the rise of local languages and
literatures within the English speaking Caribbean, especially as
reflected in the language choices of creative writers. The study
engages two problems: first, the historical reality that standard
metropolitan English established by British colonialists
dominates official economic, cultural, and political affairs in
these former colonies, contesting the development of vernacular,
Creole, and pidgin dialects even among the region’s
indigenous population; and second, the fact that literary
discourse developed under such conditions has received scant
attention.
Caribbean Literary Discourse explores the language
choices that preoccupy creative writers in whose work vernacular
discourse displays its multiplicity of origins, its elusive
boundaries, and its most vexing issues. The authors address the
degree to which language choice highlights political loyalties
and tensions; the politics of identity, self-representation, and
nationalism; the implications of code-switching—the ability
to alternate deliberately between different languages, accents,
or dialects—for identity in postcolonial society; the rich
rhetorical and literary effects enabled by code-switching and the
difficulties of acknowledging or teaching those ranges in
traditional education systems; the longstanding interplay between
oral and scribal culture; and the predominance of intertextuality
in postcolonial and diasporic literature.
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Slowing metaphor down : elaborating deliberate metaphor theory
Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) claims that there is an essential processing difference between non-deliberate and deliberate metaphor use which can explain all this. This book is the first full account of the DMT model for metaphor comprehension.
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Perspectives on narrativity and narrative perspectivization
The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that are common to the different levels of linguistic structure, literary novels, and narrative pictures. As such, it is also a book on narrative perspectivization since its contributions examine in detail the perspectival principles in medieval, romantic and postmodern literature, in the micro-linguistic structure of language, narrative pictures, literary novels, dramatic texts, and everyday stories. In doing so, it contributes both to the theoretical debate on the core definition of narrativity and offers new empirical investigations on perspectival principles in specific historical, medial, and genre constellations. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cognitive linguistics, narrative research and (transmedial) narratology, cognitive poetics, and stylistics.
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Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts
During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter \"this election is not a joke\". By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates something about what is. Bringing together a focus on text with cognitive and pragmatic approaches, a case is made for an application of linguistic negation as a tool of analysis. This tool is used to explore the ideological implications of projecting or reflecting readerly expectations. This book contributes to the growing field of Critical stylistics and aims to add to the range of stylistic insights which anchor the analysis of discourse to a consideration of the nuances of language choice.
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