Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

From Poetics to Politics

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474449991 (ISBN)

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Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres.
The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis and also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as a text’s ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. It also takes new strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers’ reception of, and resistance to, texts.

Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Introduction, Christopher HartChapter 1: Shelley’s Dominion: Subliminal and Ambient Tonal Effects Across a Literary Work, Peter StockwellChapter 2: A ‘Half-Remembered Quality’: Experiencing Disorientation and Claustrophobia in The Goldfinch, Chloe HarrisonChapter 3: Creativity and Cognition in the Discourse of National Trust Holiday Cottage Guestbooks, Joanna Gavins and Sara WhiteleyChapter 4: Metaphorical Descriptions of Pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum: Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics, Elena SeminoChapter 5: Simulation in Deictic Space: Scenes and Episodes in the Lord’s Prayer, Jeremy HollandChapter 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-LlamasChapter 7: A Nation Divided: Metaphors and Scenarios in Media Coverage of the 2016 British EU Referendum, Veronika Koller and Josie RyanChapter 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 BrowseChapter 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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Zusatzinfo	21 black and white illustrations, 9 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	348 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
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ISBN-13	9781474449991 / 9781474449991
Zustand	Neuware