Subject index
A
- advertisements2, 32, 66, 72, 163
- aesthetic design2, 33, 37
- Anglo-Saxon poetry
- Auden, influence on77, 80
- Exeter book riddles and poems
81–3
- monks and religious culture83
- phonology and rhetoric5, 77
- appreciation
- of literary texts101, 110
- artificial intelligence (AI)163
- attractors37,
47–8
- character description and50
- cognitive-poetic view of48
B
- biblical stories
- Book of Genesis59, 65,
66–8
; , 71see also religion
- BNC (British National Corpus)150
- broad truth conditions173
C
-
calor cogitationis
11–12
, 23,
25–34
- CANCODE Corpus (Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English)6,
149–68
- echoing and converging
153–4
- linguistic and literary theory
167–8
- morphological inventiveness
152–3
- pattern-reforming choices
154–5
,
158–9
, 166
- pattern-reinforcing choices
154–5
,
158–9
, 166
- punning and playing
150–2
- research155see also literary language
- caricature6,
127–8
, 131,
133–4
, 136,
143–4
- catasterism88, 91, 93, 100
-
Cheating at Canasta
101–10
- internal text-world variation
108–10
- speech presentation
105–8
- thought presentation
108–10
- Christianity
19–20
; , 34, 124see also religious texts
- CNN (Cable News Network)57,
73–4
- diagrammatic taxis at
68–72
- COBUILD Corpus (Collins Birmingham University International Language Database)150
- cognitive anthropology
158–9
- cognitive linguistics
42–4
, 48,
159–61
, 180
- cognitive discourse grammar47
- cognitive grammar
43–4
, 47
- cognitive stylistics47, 137
- cognitive refreshmentSee schema refreshment
- literary language and
159–61
- comedy163
- stand-up
178–9
; see also humour/humorous language
- confessional poetry4, 11, 13, 21
- corpus stylistics44, 104,
120–2
- counter-coding strategies
172–3
- creative illusion25,
32–3
- creative metaphorSee metaphor
- creative writing1,
4–5
,
113–15
- creativity
113–14
,
149–55
, 165, 167
- morphological
152–3
, 166
- crime and retribution genre120
- critical theory37, 42, 45
- cross-cultural studies
- irony, pragmatics of
171–90
D
- detective genre128
-
Sherlock Holmes
132–3
, 136, 145
- deviation theory156see also literary language
- diagrammatic taxisSee taxis
- digital technology
68–9
, 74
- Direct Speech (DS)104,
106–7
, 110
E
- early modern English91,
95–7
- echo
- lexical and syntactic
153–4
, 166
- phonological/phonaesthetic152, 156
- emotion12, 50, 52,
120–5
, 129
- English usage1, 3,
23–4
, 27, 66
- epistolary genre
30–1
,
114–15
- ethics
- fictional discourse
144–5
- eulogy
85–6
, 89, 94
- rhetorical fabric of Jonson’s
90–2
- Exeter Book77
- Anglo-Saxon riddles and poems
81–3
- poetry and play in the riddles83
- experimental psychology175
- external narration104, 110
F
- fiction writing
113–25
- language of popular24,
29–30
- fictional worlds
127–9
, 140, 146
- figurative language
159–60
- First Folio85, 100
- preliminary matter
88–90
, 96, 98
- fixed expressions6,
151–2
, 166
- focalisers101, 102, 105, 108
- folk linguistics81, 171, 185, 188
- Free Indirect Speech (FIS)
106–7
- Free Indirect Thought (FIT)
108–9
- French intellectuals
127–8
, 134,
142–3
, 145
- French Theory6, 129, 131, 134, 142, 146see also culture: cultural theory
G
- Greek classical authors88,
91–2
,
99–100
, 132
H
- heroism theme
29–30
, 82, 91
- High Emotional Involvement (HEI) model
5–6
, 113,
121–5
- humour/humorous language
2–3
, 7, 24,
28–9
, 97,
171–90
- black humour of Victorian comic songs28
- as a human characteristic28
- social and cultural experience28
- speech29see also comedy; irony; parody; satire
I
- ideology
24–5
; , 29see also gender ideology
- idiom
118–19
, 152, 164, 166
- illocutionary theory135,
138–9
, 141
- illusion
- creative25,
113–15
,
118–19
, 125
- Indirect Speech (IS)104,
106–7
- inherency models
155–7
; see also literary language
- internal narration (IN)104, 108, 110
- internet
68–9
- hypertextuality of71see also social media
- intersubjectivity135, 167
- intertextuality127,
132–3
, 142
- Ireland
- irony, pragmatics of6,
171–90
- irony27, 102
- corpus-based approaches173, 182
- cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of
171–90
- echoic model of (use/mention distinction)173
- global cultural comparisons
184–9
- implicit and explicit aspects173
- ironic situations
171–2
, 174,
180–1
, 187, 189
- irony inducing expressions176
- modelling situational irony 180fig.
- neo-Gricean perspective173
- non-ironic situations171, 175, 177, 186
- North American perceptions of6,
171–90
- quantification of171, 176, 182, 184
- relevant inappropriateness173
- reversal of evaluation173
- semantics/pragmatics interface173, 183
- situational
6–7
, 171, 174,
179–81
, 189
- umbrella definition of174, 179, 180
- word cloud analysis
183–5
L
- lexis25
- lexical semantics160, 162
- linguistic arbitrariness42
- literariness149, 156, 158,
161–3
, 167
- literary criticism24,
37–8
,
40–2
- traditional approaches118, 121
- literary language
- literary vs non-literary language6
- non-literary language vs
161–8
- literary theory44,
134–5
, 139
- logicSee philosophy of language
M
- metaphor
18–19
, 21, 25, 29, 31
- figurative language and
160–1
- Middle English80
- metrical and rhetorical devices
80–1
- mock ‘Umfrey’ poems3,
13–15
- modernism60, 158
- pre-modernist thinkers162see also postmodernism
-
Monty Python sketches132n3
- morphological creativity
152–3
, 166
N
- Narrator’s Presentation of Speech (NPS)104
- Narrator’s Presentation of Speech Acts (NPSA)
106–7
- Narrator’s Presentation of Voice (NPV)106
- Narrator’s Representation of Speech (NRS)104
- national identitySee identity
- naturalistic readings
41–2
- newspapers/print media65, 66, 163, 172
O
- Old English5, 80
- metrical and rhetorical devices
80–1
- omniscient narration (3rd person)102
- ordinary language use
167–8
- ordinary versus professional readers127, 129, 142
P
- parallelism32,
158–9
; , 166see also syntactic parallelism
- para-repetitionSee lexical repetition
- parody
2–5
, 28, 57,
127–8
, 143, 145, 172
- mock-Middle English poetry15
- persuasion
- power of the human voice132
- philosophy162
- of language137,
140–1
,
144–6
- phonology114
- Anglo-Saxon poetry5,
78–9
- pleasure149,
154–5
,
158–9
,
162–5
,
167–8
- aesthetic168see also literary language
- politeness101,
106–7
, 172
- politics
- spolitical speech57, 66, 68
- popular songs163, 178, 186
- postmodernism
131–2
- cultural studies
145–6
; see also modernism
- presentationality
158–9
, 163, 165
- designed for performance158see also socio-cultural models
- pronouns85
- pronominal choice5,
85–6
, 92,
94–6
- pronominal density
85–6
,
92–7
- propositional logic137, 140see also philosophy of language
- psychology
- socio-psychological aesthetics
165–7
- Public Transaction English (PTE)66
- puns6, 29, 92, 151, 158,
162–3
Q
- questionnaires173,
175–9
, 182, 192
R
- Reader Reception Theory (RRT)140
- religion135
- religious poetry and ‘heart spaces’13,
17–21
- religious texts
11–34
; , 136see also biblical stories
- Renaissance era
- praise and poetry
89–90
,
98–9
- repetition31,
123–4
, 154
- resemblance25see also metaphor
- resonance37, 43, 52
- attention-resonance model47
- rhetoric1, 4, 7
- arrangementSee disposition; taxis
- comic writers as rhetoricians33
- definitions of
59–64
, 70
- Greek and Roman rhetoricians24
- historical English usage42, 66
- Nash’s model of rhetorical relationships 58f.70
- Quintilian’s student of12
- Renaissance advice manuals on24
- rhetorical design of prose25
- rhetorical devicesSee riddles
- structure and Jonson’s eulogy
85–94
- wit of persuasion24, 31,
57–74
- rhyme
12–13
,
17–18
, 29, 32
- riddles162
- poetry and play in the Exeter Book
83
- Roman antiquity88,
91–2
, 99, 132
S
- satire3, 6, 13, 92,
127–8
,
143–6
, 172See
ironyalso
- self-referentiality156see also literary language
- semantics114,
139–41
, 168
- semiotics127,
130–3
, 135, 143
- simultaneity of events
123–4
- situational ironySee irony
- social philosophy of language27see also philosophy: of language
- socialization of losses73
- socio-cultural models155,
157–9
- presentationality
158–9
; see also literary language
- speech act theory136, 141, 150, 157
- speech presentation101,
104–8
- spoken discourse
149–50
, 155, 165
- fictional and dramatic dialogue6see also conversational English
- stylistics
- literary criticism of the discipline
40–2
- modern literary linguistics4
- of subliminal effects
52–3
- traditions in linguistic2
- subliminal effects37,
52–3
- syntax63, 79, 114
- transformational-generative45
- systemic functional grammar (SFG)43, 114
T
- text world theory46, 101, 109, 137
- internal variation
108–10
- texture 5263
- Lawrentian style and stylistics37, 40, 41, 47, 53
- thought presentation101, 104,
108–10
- thriller genre24, 29,
127–46
-
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author
85–97
- transcendence25See
creative illusionalso
- TV reports66
- broadcast 24–hour news69,
73–4
U
- understanding
- of literary texts101, 110
- United Kingdom (UK)
- early modern history
95–7
- irony, pragmatics of6,
171–90
- United States (UK)
- irony, pragmatics of6,
171–90
- unparliamentary language117
V
- verbal play149, 151, 153, 155,
162–7
- verbal duelling/flyting158
- verbal inventiveness6see also literary language
- Victorian era
- infant mortality and black humour28
- rhetorical definitions of poetry59
- viewpoint102,
108–10
- features and transitions5
- Lawrentian style and stylistics37, 41, 49
W
- ‘Wall Street’ speech
72–3
- wit28, 97, 100, 186
- of persuasionSee persuasion
- writer-reader relationship25
- written language
- creativity inSee creative writing; creativity
- as a heuristic process31, 67
- literary language and6,
149–50
- spokenness of33see also fiction writing