Cognitive Stylistics

Language and cognition in text analysis

Elena Semino editor Jonathan Culpeper editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co

Published:5th Nov '02

Should be back in stock very soon

Cognitive Stylistics cover

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative accounts of a range of literary and textual phenomena. The chapters cover a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, including poetry, fictional and non-fictional narratives, and plays. Some of the chapters provide new approaches to phenomena that have a long tradition in literary and linguistic studies (such as humour, characterisation, figurative language, and metre), others focus on phenomena that have not yet received adequate attention (such as split-selves phenomena, mind style, and spatial language). This book is relevant to students and scholars in a wide range of areas within linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.

ISBN: 9789027233325

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 635g

333 pages