Textual choices and discourse genres

Creating meaning through form

Special Issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010)

Editors

Barbara Dancygier | University of British Columbia

José Sanders | Radboud University Nijmegen

[English Text Construction, 3:2] 2010. v, 192 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.3.2

Table of Contents

Introductory remarks Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders	141–143
Articles
Illusions of simplicity: A cognitive approach to visual poetry Mike Borkent	145–164
Alternativity in poetry and drama: Textual intersubjectivity and framing Barbara Dancygier	165–184
Joint attention, To the Lighthouse, and modernist representations of intersubjectivity Vera Tobin	185–202
‘Where am I, lurking in what place of vantage?’: The discourse of distance in John Banville’s fiction Lieven Vandelanotte	203–225
Intertwined voices: Journalists’ modes of representing source information in journalistic subgenres José Sanders	226–249
Unrealistic scenarios, metaphorical blends and rhetorical strategies across genres Elena Semino	250–274
LIFE IS MUSIC: A case study of a novel metaphor and its use in discourse Elżbieta Górska	275–293
Two puzzle pieces: Fitting discourse context and constructions into cognitive metaphor theory Carol Lynn Moder	294–320
Textual choices and discourse genres: What cognitive linguistics reveals about form and meaning Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders	321–327
Acknowledgements	329
Contents of Volume 3	331–332

Subjects

Linguistics

Applied linguistics

English linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

English literature & literary studies