Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse: From Poetics to Politics

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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.

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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.

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'Written by top scholars in cognitive stylistics, poetics, and critical discourse analysis, this groundbreaking collection shows the true breadth and potential of a "usage-based'' framework.'Barbara Dancygier, University of British ColumbiaExtends the territory of cognitive linguistics beyond the language system to consider texts and discourse in the traditions of cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis.Analysing a range of genres, including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter applies frameworks in Cognitive Linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis but also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as atext's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. The book takesnew strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.Key features* Contributions from scholars across cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis* Texts analysed include Percy Shelly's 'A Summer Evening Churchyard', Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, the Lord's Prayer, and Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising'* Applies a range of Cognitive Linguistic frameworks including Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Text World Theory and Cognitive GrammarChristopher Hart is Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University.Cover image:

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'Written by top scholars in cognitive stylistics, poetics, and critical discourse analysis, this groundbreaking collection shows the true breadth and potential of a "usage-based'' framework.'Barbara Dancygier, University of British ColumbiaExtends the territory of cognitive linguistics beyond the language system to consider texts and discourse in the traditions of cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis.Analysing a range of genres, including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter applies frameworks in Cognitive Linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis but also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as atext's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. The book takesnew strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.Key features* Contributions from scholars across cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis* Texts analysed include Percy Shelly's 'A Summer Evening Churchyard', Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, the Lord's Prayer, and Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising'* Applies a range of Cognitive Linguistic frameworks including Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Text World Theory and Cognitive GrammarChristopher Hart is Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University.Cover image:

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Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Christopher Hart 1. Shelley's Dominion: Subliminal and Ambient Tonal Effects Across a Literary Work, Peter Stockwell 2. A 'Half-Remembered Quality': Experiencing Disorientation and Claustrophobia in The Goldfinch, Chloe Harrison 3. Creativity and Cognition in the Discourse of National Trust Holiday Cottage Guestbooks, Joanna Gavins and Sara Whiteley 4. Metaphorical Descriptions of Pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum: Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics, Elena Semino 5. Simulation in Deictic Space: Scenes and Episodes in the Lord's Prayer, Jeremy Holland 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-Llamas 7. "A Nation Divided": Metaphors and Scenarios in Media Coverage of the 2016 British EU Referendum, Veronika Koller and Josie Ryan 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 Browse 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

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Literary texts and political texts are so divergent that it seems unrealistic to bring them under one roof. The scholarly disciplines related to the two sets of texts, stylistics and critical discourse analysis (CDA), respectively, are traditionally known to be divergent. This volume successfully brings the two fields together under the umbrella of cognitive linguistics (CL), which provides 'the common toolkit for close, linguistically motivated, textual analysis' (p. 6)... In this volume, 'cognitive linguistic approaches' is rather broad and all-encompassing. Three strands of theory are adopted in the studies... Although these theories vary in their contents and focus, they share in common the basic CL tenet: Language is experiential and embodied. The chapters in this volume are committed to the general principles of CL to account for processes of meaning construction in texts and discourse. The volume also helps refine and extend CL theories by contributing new insights into the workings of linguistic concepts like metaphor, transitivity or event-structure, viewpoint, deixis and other attentional or perspectival phenomena.--Hongwei Zhan, Hangzhou Normal University, P.R. China "Discourse Studies"Written by top scholars in cognitive stylistics, poetics, and critical discourse analysis, this groundbreaking collection shows the true breadth and potential of a 'usage-based' framework.--Professor Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia

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Written by top scholars in cognitive stylistics,?poetics, and critical discourse analysis, this groundbreaking'collection shows'the true breadth and potential of a 'usage-based' framework.

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Applies cognitive linguistic approaches to text analysis in the traditions of poetics and critical discourse analysis Brings together scholars working across stylistics and critical discourse analysis including Peter Stockwell, Joanna Gavins and Elena Semino Uses experimental and ethnographic methods for textual research Explores phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis as well as epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness Texts analysed include Percy Shelly's A Summer Evening Churchyard, Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, the Lord's Prayer as found in the Gospel according to Matthew, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising 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.

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Brings together scholars working across stylistics and critical discourse analysis including Peter Stockwell, Joanna Gavins and Elena Semino Uses experimental and ethnographic methods for textual research Explores phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis as well as epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness Texts analysed include Percy Shelly's A Summer Evening Churchyard , Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, the Lord's Prayer as found in the Gospel according to Matthew, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising

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Applies cognitive linguistic approaches to text analysis in the traditions of poetics and critical discourse analysis Demonstrates the use of experimental and ethnographic cognitive linguistics methods for textual reseach Draws on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories Explores phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis as well as epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness Brings together scholars working across stylistics and critical discourse analysis including Peter Stockwell, Joanna Gavins and Elena Semino

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Potential use on postgraduate courses in critical discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics stylistics and cognitive poetics

Details ISBN1474449980 Publisher Edinburgh University Press ISBN-10 1474449980 ISBN-13 9781474449984 Format Hardcover Pages 256 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-06-30 Short Title Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse Language English Subtitle From Poetics to Politics UK Release Date 2019-06-30 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2019-06-30 Illustrations 21 B/W illustrations 9 B/W tables Translator John Joseph Birth 1938 Affiliation formerly Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading and University of Oxford Position Author Qualifications M.N., R.N., Aocn Author Christopher Hart Edited by Christopher Hart DEWEY 410.1835 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2019-09-18 Alternative 9781474449991 We've got this

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