Textual Choices in Discourse
A view from cognitive linguistics
- Editor(s): Barbara Dancygier 1 , José Sanders 2 and Lieven Vandelanotte 3
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of British Columbia2 Radboud University Nijmegen3 University of Namur & University of Leuven
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date July 2012
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027273864
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.40
In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse contexts. In this volume, originally published as a special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010), the contributors, a mix of established and emerging authors in the field, analyse broadcast and print journalism, argumentative scientific discourse, radio lectures on music, and the main literary genres (the poetry of Szymborska and bpNichol, the drama of Shakespeare, the modernist prose of Virginia Woolf and recent fiction by John Banville). Collectively the findings suggest a need to broaden and refine the cognitive linguistic repertoire, while also uncovering new ways to interpret textual data. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students with interests in cognitive poetics and linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics and construction grammar.
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