This innovative collection showcases the most exciting current applications of cognitive grammar. Its benefits for both literary and non-literary stylistics are demonstrated throughout, with welcome attention to political and media texts, as well as multimodal discourse and pedagogy. The flexibility of the framework emerges clearly, along with its openness, in the hands of such expert researchers as are gathered together here, to bold advances and new directions.
Joe Bray, Professor of Language and Literature, The University of Sheffield, UK
This exciting collection demonstrates how literary linguistics, critical discourse analysis and educational linguistics profit from the application of concepts and methods from Cognitive Grammar. The papers provide a most welcome contribution to the burgeoning field of Cognitive Stylistics, proving, above all, the value of systematic and rigorous analysis of linguistic choices with a view to textual effects and language understanding in both literary and non-literary contexts.
Ralf Schneider, Chair of English Literature, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
This lively and wide-ranging collection demonstrates the capacity of cognitive grammar to throw light on the meanings of texts, both literary and non-literary, from the perspective of what may be happening in the reader's mind. Clearly written and well-illustrated, it will appeal to researchers and students alike.
Lesley Jeffries, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Huddersfield, UK
[T]his book expands the scope of application of Cognitive Grammar, and deepens the study of Cognitive Stylistics to more complex human cognition. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece brought by the combination of Cognitive Grammar and Stylistics.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies
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.
Introduction, Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University, UK), Chloe Harrison (Aston University, UK) and Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Part I: Cognitive Grammar in Literary Contexts
1. Re-Cognising Free Indirect Discourse, Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham, UK)
2. The Dynamicity of Construal, Embodied Memory and (Mental) Time Travel in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Ann Holm (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
3. Construal, Blending and Metaphoric Worlds in Francis Harvey’s ‘The Deaf Woman in the Glen’, Nigel Mcloughlin (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
4. Guilty Grammar: See-saw Perspective and Morality in a Poem by E.E. Cummings, Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield, UK)
5. Modelling Intentionality in Cognitive Grammar: Critical and Literary Applications, Matthew Voice (University of Sheffield, UK)
6. Subject and Object and The Nature of Reality’ in Are You My Mother?, Richard Finn (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part II: Cognitive Grammar in Non-Literary and Applied Contexts
7. “28 Palestinians Die”: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Mystification in Press Coverage of State Violence on the Gaza Border, Chris Hart (Lancaster University, UK)
8. ‘Hmmm Yes, but Where’s the Beef?’ Cognitive Grammar and the Active Audience in Political Discourse, Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
9. ‘All The Figures I Used to See’: Using Cognitive Grammar to Grapple With Rhythmic and Intertextual Meaning-making in Radiohead’s ‘Pyramid Song’, Clara Neary (University of Chester, UK)
10. Cognitive Grammar as a Tool for the Creation of Multimodal Texts, Alison Bown (independent scholar, UK)
11. From Theoretical to Pedagogical Grammar: The Challenges of Writing a Textbook on Cognitive Grammar, Marcello Giovanelli and Chloe Harrison (Aston University, UK)
12. Recontextualizing Cognitive Grammar for School Teaching, Ian Cushing (Brunel University, UK)
13. Towards a Concept-driven Pedagogy: A Model of Linguistic Knowledge, Sally Zacharias (University of Glasgow, UK)
14. Coda (Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University, UK), Chloe Harrison (Aston University, UK) and Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Index
Advances in Stylistics provides student resources and research material in cutting-edge stylistics. It forgoes traditional boundaries to encompass the study of both literary and non-literary texts, and covers exciting new developments in the field. It takes a broad view of stylistics as the practice of using linguistic methodologies and analytical frameworks to facilitate the analysis of texts of all genres and types, for the purpose of explaining why we interpret texts in the way that we do.
Books in the series address such topics as stylistic theory, discourse analysis, language and cognition, literary genre, corpus stylistics, the analysis of historical texts, pedagogical stylistics, multimodality and stylistic methodologies.
The series further develops stylistic and linguistic theory, to demonstrate the application and value of stylistic tools of analysis and further consolidate stylistics as a major study and research area within language studies.
Editorial Board
Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK
Beatrix Busse, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Szilvia Csábi, Independent Scholar
Yaxiao Cui, University of Nottingham, UK
Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, Germany
Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield, UK
Manuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, France
Lorenzo Mastropierro, University of Nottingham, UK
Eric Rundquist, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Larry Stewart, College of Wooster, USA
Odette Vassallo, University of Malta, Malta
Peter Verdonk, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Marcello Giovanelli is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK.
Chloe Harrison is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK.
Louise Nuttall is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK.