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Publication details [#42589]

Rohrer, Tim. 2005. Mimesis, artistic inspiration and the blends we live by. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (10) : 1686–1716.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

blending | cognitive linguistics | fiction2 | literature | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses blending theory to examine the pragmatics of fiction, and demonstrates how this theory accounts for the mechanics of literary mimesis.