Louise Nuttall

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar (eBook, ePUB)

Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances our understanding of mind style: the experience of other minds, or worldviews, through language in literature. This book is the first to set out a detailed, unified framework for the analysis of mind style using the account of language and cognition set out in cognitive grammar.

Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, Louise Nuttall aims to explain how character and narrator minds are created linguistically, with a focus on the strange minds encountered in the genre of speculative fiction. Previous analyses of mind style are reconsidered using cognitive grammar, alongside original analyses of four novels by Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Richard Matheson and J.G. Ballard. Responses to the texts in online forums and literary critical studies ground the analyses in the experiences of readers, and support an investigation of this effect as an embodied experience cued by the language of a text. Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances both stylistics and cognitive linguistics, whilst offering new insights for research in speculative fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350010550
• Artikelnr.: 54681156

Autorenporträt

Louise Nuttall is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research explores stylistic applications of Cognitive Grammar and reader experiences of fictional minds. She is co-editor of Cognitive Grammar in Literature (with Chloe Harrison, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan, John Benjamins, 2014). Her first published article in Language and Literature won the 2015 PALA Prize.