Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse : : From Poetics to Politics / / Christopher Hart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hart, Christopher,
• MitwirkendeR: Browse, Sam,; Filardo-Llamas, Laura,; Gavins, Joanna,; Harrison, Chloe,; Hart, Christopher,; Holland, Jeremy,; Koller, Veronika,; Ryan, Josie,; Semino, Elena,; Stockwell, Peter,; Whiteley, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 21 B/W illustrations 9 B/W tables

Applies cognitive linguistic approaches to text analysis in the traditions of poetics and critical discourse analysisBrings 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 persuasivenessTexts 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Shelley’s Dominion: Subliminal and Ambient Tonal Effects Across a Literary Work -- 2 A ‘Half-Remembered Quality’: Experiencing Disorientation and Claustrophobia in The Goldfinch -- 3 Creativity and Cognition in the Discourse of National Trust Holiday Cottage Guestbooks -- 4 Metaphorical Descriptions of Pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum: Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics -- 5 Simulation in Deictic Space: Scenes and Episodes in the Lord’s Prayer -- 6 Cultural Responses to 9/11 and the Healing Power of Songs: A Text-World-Theory Analysis of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Rising’ -- 7 ‘A Nation Divided’: Metaphors and Scenarios in Media Coverage of the 2016 British EU Referendum -- 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 -- 9 Spatial Properties of ACTION Verb Semantics: Experimental Evidence For Image Schema Orientation in Transitive Versus Reciprocal Verbs and Its Implications for Ideology -- Index