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CognitiveStylistics
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
LinguisticApproachestoLiterature(LAL)providesaninternationalforumfor
researchers who believe that the application of linguistic methods leads to a
deeperandmorefar-reachingunderstandingofmanyaspectsofliterature.The
emphasis will be on pragmatic approaches intersecting with areas such as
discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, rhetoric, philosophy,
cognitivelinguistics,psycholinguisticsandstylistics.
Editors
GerardJ.Steen WillievanPeer PeterVerdonk
FreeUniversityAmsterdam UniversityofMunich UniversityofAmsterdam
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TimothyR.Austin PaisleyLivingston
LoyolaUniversityChicago UniversityofCopenhagen
DouglasBiber ColinMartindale
NorthernArizonaUniversity UniversityofMaine
LubomirDolezel SaraMills
UniversityofToronto SheffieldHalamUniversity
DonaldC.Freeman MickShort
UniversityofSouthernCalifornia LancasterUniversity
HaraldFricke MichaelToolan
UniversityofFribourg UniversityofBirmingham
RaymondW.GibbsJr. ReuvenTsur
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz TelAvivUniversity
RachelGiora JeanJacquesWeber
TelAvivUniversity UniversityCentreLuxemburg
Volume1
CognitiveStylistics:Languageandcognitionintextanalysis
EditedbyElenaSeminoandJonathanCulpeper
Cognitive Stylistics
Language and cognition
in text analysis
Edited by
Elena Semino
Jonathan Culpeper
LancasterUniversity
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword ix
ElenaSeminoandJonathanCulpeper
1. ConceptualintegrationinChristinedePizan’sCityofLadies 1
CraigHamilton
2. Thebodyintheword:Acognitiveapproachtotheshapeofa
poetictext 23
MargaretFreeman
3. TheFigureintheCarpet:DiscoveryorRe-cognition 49
YannaPopova
4. Miltonictextureandthefeelingofreading 73
PeterStockwell
5. Acognitivestylisticapproachtomindstyleinnarrativefiction 95
ElenaSemino
6. Betweenthelines:Spatiallanguageanditsdevelopmental
representationinStephenKing’sIT 123
WillievanPeerandEvaGraf
7. “Splitselves”infictionandinmedical“lifestories”:Cognitive
linguistictheoryandnarrativepractice 153
CatherineEmmott
8. MetaphorinBobDylan’s“Hurricane”:Genre,language,and
style 183
GerardSteen
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9. Cognitiveconstraintsonverbalcreativity:Theuseoffigurative
languageinpoeticdiscourse 211
YeshayahuShen
10. Cognitivestylisticsofhumoroustexts 231
SalvatoreAttardo
11. Acognitivestylisticapproachtocharacterisation 251
JonathanCulpeper
12. AspectsofCognitivePoetics 279
ReuvenTsur
Afterword 319
DonaldC.Freeman
NameIndex 325
SubjectIndex 329
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Acknowledgements
In Chapter2: the photograph of Emily Dickinson’s “Dreams are well — “ by
permission of The Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1118.3
(183)). © The President and Fellows of Harvard College. The photograph of
EmilyDickinson’s“UponaLilacSea”(MSA502)bypermissionoftheTrustees
ofAmherstCollege.EmilyDickinson’spoems334“AllthelettersIcanwrite”,
450“Dreams—AreWell—butWaking’sBetter”,and1337“UponaLilacSea”
reprintedbyPermissionofthePublishersandtheTrusteesofAmherstCollege
fromTHEPOEMSOFEMILYDICKINSON,ThomasH.Johnson,ed.,Cam-
bridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright ©
1951, 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Emily
Dickinson’spoems171“AFuzzyfellow,withoutfeet—”and1523“Howsoft
aCaterpillarsteps”reprintedbyPermissionofthePublishersandtheTrustees
of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Ralph W.
Franklin, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Copyright©1951,1955,1979bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege.
InChapter8:theLyricsofBobDylan’s“Hurricane”—Copyright©1975by
Ram’s Horn Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
Reprinted by permission. In Chapter11: material drawn from Jonathan
Culpeper (2001) “Language and characterisation: people in plays and other
texts”bypermissionofthepublishersPearsonEducationLimited.Theuseof
theSanatogenClassic50PlusadvertisementbypermissionofF.Hoffman-La
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Foreword
ElenaSeminoandJonathanCulpeper
LancasterUniversity,UK
Thiscollectionaimstorepresentthestateoftheartincognitivestylistics—a
rapidlyexpandingfieldattheinterfacebetweenlinguistics,literarystudiesand
cognitive science. Cognitive stylistics combines the kind of explicit, rigorous
and detailed linguistic analysis of literary texts that is typical of the stylistics
tradition with a systematic and theoretically informed consideration of the
cognitivestructuresandprocessesthatunderlietheproductionandreception
oflanguage.
Cognitivestylistics,aswehavejustdefinedit,isbotholdandnew.Itisold
inthesensethat,infocusingontherelationshipbetweenlinguisticchoicesand
effects, stylistics has always been concerned with both texts and readers’
interpretations of texts. It is important to remember, for example, that Fore-
grounding theory (Mukarˇovský 1970), which played a major role in the
development of modern Anglo-American stylistics, is concerned with the
cognitiveeffectsofparticularlinguisticchoicesandpatterns(andthisinspite
ofthefactthatitstemmedfromaschoolknownasFormalism).Itistherefore
nocoincidencethatvanPeer’sseminalbookontheempiricalinvestigationof
Foregrounding theory was entitled Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of
Foregrounding(vanPeer1986).Similarly,workinstylisticshasbeeninfluenced
bytheoreticalandmethodologicaladvancesinReaderResponseCriticism(e.g.
Fish1973)andtheEmpiricalStudyofLiterature(e.g.ShortandvanPeer1988).
Traditionalstylisticanalysis,however,tendstomakeuseoflinguistictheories
orframeworksinordertoexplainorpredictinterpretation.Whatisnewabout
cognitivestylisticsisthewayinwhichlinguisticanalysisissystematicallybased
ontheoriesthatrelatelinguisticchoicestocognitivestructuresandprocesses.
Thisprovidesmoresystematicandexplicitaccountsoftherelationshipbetween
textsontheonehandandresponsesandinterpretationsontheother.
