Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics: 40 (Benjamins Current Topics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027202591 ISBN 13: 9789027202598

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2012

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027202591
• ISBN 13: 9789027202598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Dancygier Barbara, Sanders José, Vandelanotte Lieven