Language ¿ Literature ¿ the Arts: A Cognitive-Semiotic Interface

Olga Vorobyova

ISBN 10: 3631660863 / ISBN 13: 9783631660867

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2017, 2017

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Neuware -The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international contributors suggesting a wide range of innovative perspectives on the correlation between verbal discourse and creative artefacts. The book reveals the specificity of such phenomena as parallax, transparency, corporeal imagination, and multimodality. Alongside interpreting artistic texts, the contributors search for cognitive and semiotic manifestations of creativity in political and everyday discourse. 328 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language ¿ Literature ¿ the Arts: A Cognitive-Semiotic Interface
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631660863
• ISBN 13: 9783631660867
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 23D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 538 grams

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Synopsis

The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international contributors suggesting a wide range of innovative perspectives on the correlation between verbal discourse and creative artefacts. The book reveals the specificity of such phenomena as parallax, transparency, corporeal imagination, and multimodality. Alongside interpreting artistic texts, the contributors search for cognitive and semiotic manifestations of creativity in political and everyday discourse.

About the Author

Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her main areas of interest cover theoretical and literary semantics, stylistics, philosophy of language, and artistic semiotics, on which she has published widely in Poland and abroad.

Olga Vorobyova is Chair and Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English Philology and Philosophy of Language at Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine. She is a literary linguist and cognitive poetologist, with a particular interest in multimodal stylistics, iconicity, and cognitive facets of literary modernism.