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Zusatztext Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar offers a fascinating! text-driven account of how readers experience mind styles in speculative fiction. Through a series of four exemplary case studies! which scale from syntax to lexis! and then to patterns of action chains and metaphor! Nuttall convincingly demonstrates how Cognitive Grammar can inform! enrich and extend our understanding of distinctive worldviews in these defamiliarising text worlds. Informationen zum Autor 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.Details an analytical approach to mind style in speculative fiction texts using cognitive grammar. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Mind style 3. Cognitive grammar 4. Syntax and thought 5. Lexis and knowledge 6. Transitivity and worldview 7. Metaphor and mind 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
