Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction
Title | Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Chloe Harrison |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-05-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9027265569 |
This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and mind-modelling, amongst others), the volume scales up central Cognitive Grammar concepts (such as construal, grounding, the reference point model and action chains) in order to explore the attenuation of experience – and how it is simulated – in literary reading. In particular, it considers a range of contemporary texts by Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McEwan and Paul Auster. This application builds upon previous work that adopts Cognitive Grammar for literary analysis and provides the first extended account of Cognitive Grammar in contemporary fiction.
Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar
Title | Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Nuttall |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2018-09-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1350010545 |
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.
New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style
Title | New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style PDF eBook |
Author | Marcello Giovanelli |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1350111120 |
In recent years, the Cognitive Grammar account of language and mind has become an influential framework for the study of textual meaning and interpretation. This book is the first to bring together applications of Cognitive Grammar for a range of stylistic purposes, including the analysis of both literary and non-literary discourse. Demonstrating the diverse range of uses for Cognitive Grammar, chapters apply this framework to diverse text-types including poetry, narrative fiction, comics, press reports, political discourse and music, as well as exploring its potential for the teaching of language and literature in a range of contexts. Combining cutting-edge research in cognitive, critical and pedagogical stylistics, New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style showcases the latest developments in this field and offers new insights into our experiences of literary and non-literary texts by drawing on current understandings of language and cognition.
Cognitive Grammar in Literature
Title | Cognitive Grammar in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Chloe Harrison |
Publisher | Linguistic Approaches to Literature |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Cognitive grammar |
ISBN | 9789027234063 |
This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience and literariness itself to be conducted in newly valid ways. With a Foreword by the creator of Cognitive Grammar, Ronald Langacker, and an Afterword by the cognitive scientist Todd Oakley, the book represents the latest advance in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice.
Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics
Title | Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics PDF eBook |
Author | Marcello Giovanelli |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2024-08-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1350355488 |
Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses. Assuming no prior knowledge, it leads students through the basics of cognitive grammar, outlining its place within the field of cognitive linguistics as a whole, providing clear explanations of key principles and concepts, and explaining how these can be used to support the study of a range of literary and non-literary texts. Thoroughly updated throughout to encompass emerging trends in the field, this second edition features: - Increased exploration of a range of topics, including specificity and definiteness, scanning, perfective and imperfective verbs, action chains, and subjective and objective construal - A brand new chapter on extended projects in cognitive grammar - Additional activities, including on a wider range of literary texts - Further solutions to modelled answers - Updated examples, references, and further reading recommendations Presenting cognitive grammar as a powerful alternative to more traditional grammatical models to enable the analysis of texts, the book's primary focus is on the practical application of cognitive grammar to examples of language in context and on its potential for specifically literary and non-literary material. It offers a clear and facilitating approach to allow students to describe language features carefully and to explore how these descriptions can be developed into full and rich analyses.
Cognitive Grammar in Literature
Title | Cognitive Grammar in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Chloe Harrison |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2014-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027270562 |
This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience and literariness itself to be conducted in newly valid ways. With a Foreword by the creator of Cognitive Grammar, Ronald Langacker, and an Afterword by the cognitive scientist Todd Oakley, the book represents the latest advance in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice.
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Dirk Geeraerts |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 1366 |
Release | 2010-06-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199738637 |
With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.