| Description |
xi, 206 p. : ill., tables |
| Contents |
1: Shelley's Dominion: Subliminal and Ambient Tonal Effects Across a Literary Work, Peter Stockwell -- 2: A 'Half-Remembered Quality': Experiencing Disorientation and Claustrophobia in The Goldfinch, Chloe Harrison -- 3: Creativity and Cognition in the Discourse of National Trust Holiday Cottage Guestbooks, Joanna Gavins and Sara Whiteley -- 4: Metaphorical Descriptions of Pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum: Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics, Elena Semino -- 5: Simulation in Deictic Space: Scenes and Episodes in the Lord's Prayer, Jeremy Holland -- 6: Cultural Responses to 9/11 and the Healing Power of Songs: A Text-World-Theory Analysis of Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising', Laura Filardo-Llamas -- 7: 'A Nation Divided': Metaphors and Scenarios in Media Coverage of the 2016 British EU Referendum; Veronika Koller and Josie Ryan -- 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, Sam Browse -- 9: Spatial Properties of ACTION Verb Semantics: Experimental Evidence for Image Schema Orientation in Transitive vs. Reciprocal Verbs and Its Implications for Ideology, Christopher Hart |
| Summary |
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 |
| Subject |
Cognitive grammar
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Discourse analysis
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| Alt Author |
Hart, Christopher
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| ISBN |
9781474449991 (pbk.) |
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