Article published in:
Visual MetaphorsEdited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1] 2020
► pp. 201–221
Rendering, generalization and variation
On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics
Magdaléna Knotková | Masaryk University
Wei-lun Lu | Masaryk University
The article presents a case study of how the use of multiple parallel texts may be employed as a useful research
method in cognitive poetics, using the English version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking-Glass and its four published Czech versions as the samples. In the analysis, we examine the language of
space in alternative verbalizations of the same literary scene across languages (English and Czech) and within the target language
(Czech), and the different mental images invoked by the different ways of verbalizing the same scene. Our analysis shows that the
use of multiple parallel texts can be a helpful research method in cognitive poetics, in the sense that the method is capable of
providing naturalistic and representative linguistic evidence of how languages systematically differ, even for a domain as basic
as space.
Keywords: construal, construction, generalization, parallel texts, stylistics
Published online: 19 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00054.kno
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00054.kno
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