Cognitive Grammar In Contemporary Fiction

Author : Chloe Harrison
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265569
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction written by Chloe Harrison and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Louise Nuttall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350010545
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar written by Louise Nuttall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Chloe Harrison
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270562
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Grammar in Literature written by Chloe Harrison and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350355488
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics written by Marcello Giovanelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350111120
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style written by Marcello Giovanelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199738637
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics written by Dirk Geeraerts and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

Author : Ronald W. Langacker
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195331958
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Grammar written by Ronald W. Langacker and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory text draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical aspects of cognitive grammar. In a unified manner, it accomodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and explicit structural description--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Chloe Harrison
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Author : Ronald W. Langacker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199937354
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Cognitive Grammar written by Ronald W. Langacker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored to students, this abridged version of Cognitive Grammar positions Langacker's authoritative work as an accessible, attractive cornerstone of cognitive linguistics as the field continues to evolve.

Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317954351
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics written by Vyvyan Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). The authors offer clear, critical evaluations of competing formal approaches within theoretical linguistics. For example, cognitive linguistics is compared to Generative Grammar and Relevance Theory. In the selection of material and in the presentations, the authors have aimed for a balanced perspective. Part II, Cognitive Semantics, and Part III, Cognitive Approaches to Grammar, have been created to be read independently. The authors have kept in mind that different instructors and readers will need to use the book in different ways tailored to their own goals. The coverage is suitable for a number of courses. While all topics are presented in terms accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and modern languages, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics.