Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics (eBook, ePUB)

From Ego to Eco
Redaktion: Drewniok, Malgorzata; Kuzniak, Marek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an up-to-date account of one of the most influential strands of eco-research: cognitive ecostylistics. The onset of the 1970s saw a global shift in scholarly perspective upon the relation between egocentric and ecocentric views of the world. The so-called eco-turn was not only linguistic at its roots, but engaged the bulk of academic thought in social sciences and humanities.

Cognitive ecostylistics invites a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the conceptual relations between oral or written texts and their impact on the environment. This volume is a collection of the latest research that seeks to apply the theory and methodology developed over the last 40 years to both literary and real-life texts, engaging with a wealth of examples from First World War poetry and Anne of Green Gables through to Condé Nast Traveller hotel descriptions. Exploring the cultural effects of the eco-turn, the collection engages the reader in the problem of the present-day Anthropocene, manifested as Ego-Eco tensions at the level of communicating self-needs and the needs of the Other. Divided into two parts, it considers first the human-angled semiotic interplay contained within the universe of people, before examining the problem of semiotic engagement of texts as extraneous to the human, highlighting crucial aspects of nature, culture, and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350362208
• Artikelnr.: 70235803

Autorenporträt

Malgorzata Drewniok is the Head of International College at the University of Lincoln, UK. Marek Kuzniak is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction: A New Ecology of Language
Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham
UK) Part I: From EGO: Self- Needs
Readership
Society Overview 1. From Ego- to Eco-Centricity: Macro- and Micro-levels of Condé Nast Traveller Hotel Descriptions
A Cognitive-Linguistic Account
Malgorzata Drewniok ( University of Lincoln
UK) and Marek Kuzniak (Wroclaw University
Poland) 2. A Diffractive Analysis of Readers' Responses to Julian Barnes's 'The Sense of an Ending'
Amélie Doche (Birmingham City University
UK) 3. Cohesion and Solidarity in COVID-related Addresses to the Nation
Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College
Ireland) and Helen Kelly-Holmes (Mary Immaculate College
Ireland) 4. The Role of Pathetic Fallacy in Triggering Narrative Empathy
Kimberley Pager-McClymont (University of Aberdeen
UK) and Fransina Stradling (University of Huddersfield
UK) 5. Reader's Reactions to Descriptions of Landscape in Polish Translations of Anne of Green Gables
Beata Piecychna (University of Bialystok
Poland) Part II: To ECO: Nature
Culture
and Beyond Overview 6. Methodological Implications of Building the Corpus of News on Economic Inequality (1971-2020): Text Readable Data vs OCR Material
Eva Gómez Jiménez (University of Granada
Spain) 7. Modelling the Landscape of Wilfred Owen's 'Futility'
Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University
UK) 8. Intralingual Eco-Translation Insights into 'Macbeth' in African American Urban Slang
Michal Garcarz (University of Wroclaw
Poland) 9. Fictional Ekphrasis Representing Childhood Trauma in M. Atwood's Cat's Eye
Polina Gavin (Aston University
UK) 10. Body
Mind
and Nature in Rossetti's 'For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione (In the Louvre)'
Eirini Panagiotidou (West Chester University of Pennsylvania
USA) Conclusion: Pathways to Eco
Malgorzata Drewniok
University of Lincoln
Marek Kuzniak (Wroclaw University
Poland) Index