Stylistics and social cognition / / edited by Lesley Jeffries, Dan McIntyre and Derek Bousfield.

This volume of articles comprises papers from the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005. The theme of the conference was ‘Stylistics and Social Cognition’, and as usual at a PALA conference, t...

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Superior document:PALA papers ; 4
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:PALA (Series) ; 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
Notes:Papers form the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005--Introd.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • A. Richards’ Theory of Metaphor: Between Protocognitivism and Poststructuralism / David West
  • The Socio-Psychology of ‘Interpretive Communities’ and a Cognitive-Semiotic Model for Analysis / Ulf Cronquist
  • Interpreting Cognitive Metaphor: Using Relevance Theory and an Alternative Account / Ziwei Mimi Huang
  • Challenging our World View: The Role of Metaphors in the Construction of a New (Text) World / María Dolores Porto Requejo
  • The Attraction of Opposites: The Ideological Function of Conventional and Created Oppositions in the Construction of In-groups and Out-groups in News Texts / Matt Davies
  • The Same Old Story: Uncovering Archetypal Narrative in ‘Real Home’ Magazine Features / Diane Davies
  • Forms of Address: Social Value and Expressive Potential / Iryna Tryshchenko
  • Telling Stories: Males and Females Doing Gender in Personal Narratives about Trouble / Marina Lambrou
  • You Must Alter Your Style, Madam: Pamela and the Gendered Construction of Narrative Voice in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel / Larry L. Stewart
  • Embedded Meaning of Free Verse Types - With an Example from the Introduction of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Ash-Wednesday’ in Swedish / Eva Lilja
  • Poetic Deviation and Cross-Cultural Cognition / Mirjana Bonačić
  • The Discourse of Silence: The Unspoken in Contemporary American Love Poetry / Judith Munat
  • Top or Flop: Characteristics of Bestsellers / Sabine Albers
  • ‘A Tale of Two Cities’: Lexical Bundles as Indicators of Linguistic Choices and Socio-cultural Traces / Tania Shepherd , Sonia Zyngier and Vander Viana
  • Naughty or Nice? Empirical Studies of Literature in the Classroom / Sonia Zyngier
  • Bibliography
  • Index.