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Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction
Chloe Harrison
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 26] 2017
► pp. 11–30

Chapter 2
Cognitive Grammar

An overview

Article outline
  • 2.1Grammar as meaning
    • 2.1.1Grammar as construction
  • 2.2CG: Some central concepts
    • 2.2.1Trajector and landmark
    • 2.2.2Image schemas
    • 2.2.3Construal
    • 2.2.4Grounding construal relationships
    • 2.2.5The compositional path
    • 2.2.6Action chains
    • 2.2.7Reference points and scanning
    • 2.2.8The current discourse space
    • 2.2.9Fictive simulation
  • 2.3CG as a discourse framework
    • 2.3.1Defining discourse
    • 2.3.2Scalability
  • 2.4CG and other cognitive models
    • 2.4.1Text World Theory
    • 2.4.2Schema theory
    • 2.4.3Deictic shift theory
    • 2.4.4Mind-modelling
  • 2.5Review