Cognitive Grammar in Literature

Editors

Chloe Harrison | University of Nottingham

Louise Nuttall | University of Nottingham

Peter Stockwell | University of Nottingham

Wenjuan Yuan | University of Nottingham

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This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience and literariness itself to be conducted in newly valid ways. With a Foreword by the creator of Cognitive Grammar, Ronald Langacker, and an Afterword by the cognitive scientist Todd Oakley, the book represents the latest advance in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice.

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 17] 2014. xiv, 255 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 March 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.17

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–x

Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii

Foreword

Ronald W. Langacker | pp. xiii–xiv

Chapter 1. Introduction: Cognitive Grammar in literature

Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan | pp. 1–16

Chapter 2. War, worlds and Cognitive Grammar

Peter Stockwell | pp. 17–34

Chapter 3. Construal and comics: The multimodal autobiography of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Michael Pleyer and Christian W. Schneider | pp. 35–52

Chapter 4. Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Soul Is Not a Smithy’

Chloe Harrison | pp. 53–68

Chapter 5. Resonant metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Sam Browse | pp. 69–82

Chapter 6. Constructing a text world for The Handmaid’s Tale

Louise Nuttall | pp. 83–100

Chapter 7. Point of view in translation: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in grammatical wonderlands

Elżbieta Tabakowska | pp. 101–116

Chapter 8. Profiling the flight of ‘The Windhover’

Clara Neary | pp. 117–132

Chapter 9. Foregrounding the foregrounded: The literariness of Dylan Thomas’s ‘After the funeral’

Anne Päivärinta | pp. 133–144

Chapter 10. Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘A Working Party’

Marcello Giovanelli | pp. 145–160

Chapter 11. Most and now: Tense and aspect in Bálint Balassi’s ‘Áldott szép pünkösdnek’

Mike Pincombe | pp. 161–176

Chapter 12. Fictive motion in Wordsworthian nature

Wenjuan Yuan | pp. 177–194

Chapter 13. The cognitive poetics of if

Craig A. Hamilton | pp. 195–212

Chapter 14. Representing the represented: Verbal variations on Vincent’s Bedroom in Arles

Alina Kwiatkowska | pp. 213–230

Afterword: From Cognitive Grammar to systems rhetoric

Todd Oakley | pp. 231–236

References

Index | pp. 253–256

“This stimulating collection of essays on narrative fiction and poetry, embracing multi-modality and translation, takes stylistics in a new direction. Cognitive grammar places meaning construction at its heart: and the applications here bravely test and probe the theory, whilst enriching our understanding of the texts themselves.”

Katie Wales, author of The Dictionary of Stylistics

“An inspiring demonstration of the great reach of Cognitive Grammar to analyze complex communication.”

Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University

“This edited volume is commendable in numerous ways. Firstly, it is groundbreaking in that it does without doubt represent the richest resource which attempts to marry CG and literary analysis thus far in the field of cognitive poetics. Secondly, the scope of literary works analysed with the use of CG in this edited collection is truly impressive.[...]this volume makes a compelling argument for the possibility and the usefulness of adopting the CG approach for the study of literature, and for extending CG to literary analysis. The authors provide groundbreaking, stimulating and creative analyses. It will be interesting to see how a cognitive grammar approach to literary analysis is further developed in future publications.”

Isabelle van der Bom, University of Sheffield, on Linguist List 26.1172, 2015

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