Textual Choices in Discourse

A view from cognitive linguistics
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-0259-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse contexts. In this volume, originally published as a special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010), the contributors, a mix of established and emerging authors in the field, analyse broadcast and print journalism, argumentative scientific discourse, radio lectures on music, and the main literary genres (the poetry of Szymborska and bpNichol, the drama of Shakespeare, the modernist prose of Virginia Woolf and recent fiction by John Banville). Collectively the findings suggest a need to broaden and refine the cognitive linguistic repertoire, while also uncovering new ways to interpret textual data. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students with interests in cognitive poetics and linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics and construction grammar.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dancygier, Barbara

Sanders, José

Vandelanotte, Lieven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introductory remarks
Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte

Illusions of simplicity: A cognitive approach to visual poetry
Mike Borkent

Alternativity in poetry and drama: Textual intersubjectivity and framing
Barbara Dancygier

Joint attention, To the Lighthouse, and modernist representations of intersubjectivity
Vera Tobin

‘Where am I, lurking in what place of vantage?’: The discourse of distance in John Banville’s fiction
Lieven Vandelanotte

Intertwined voices: Journalists’ modes of representing source information in journalistic subgenres
José Sanders

Unrealistic scenarios, metaphorical blends and rhetorical strategies across genres
Elena Semino

LIFE IS MUSIC: A case study of a novel metaphor and ist use in discourse
Elzbieta Górska

Two puzzle pieces : Fitting discourse context and constructions into cognitive metaphor theory
Carol Lynn Moder

Textual choices in discourse: Emerging views from cognitive linguistics
Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte

Acknowledgements

Index