This accessible textbook hinges on the central assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar, introducing students to the analytical tools they need to approach Stylistics, an essential area in language analysis. The author verifies the claim that alterations in style, triggered by different cognitive processes, reflect alterations in meaning, and shows how they are employed to achieve particular effects in context. The book links theory with practice, aiming both to acquaint students with the cognitive principles that account for stylistic expressions, and to provide them with the tools and techniques to conduct their own analyses. The textbook explores and explains how writers use the resources of language to create meaning, and how readers interpret texts. It will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in English Linguistics, as well as those working on other languages and in related areas such as Composition and Creative Writing.
Author(s): Zeki Hamawand
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Cham
Prologue
Topic
Aims
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Key Concepts
Introduction
Style
Keystones
Qualities
Modes
Expository
Persuasive
Narrative
Descriptive
Stylistics
Axioms
Goals
Levels
Stylistic Devices
Properties
Advantages
Types
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 2: Historical Overview
Introduction
Appropriacy-Centered Trends
Rhetorical Stylistics
Poetic Stylistics
Writer-Centered Trends
Expressive Stylistics
Psychological Stylistics
Text-Centered Trends
Practical Criticism
New Criticism
Reader-Centered Trends
Reader-Response Stylistics
Affective Stylistics
Form-Centered Trends
Structural Stylistics
Generative Stylistics
Meaning-Centered Trends
Functional Stylistics
Feminist Stylistics
Pragmatic Stylistics
Corpus Stylistics
Cognitive Stylistics
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 3: The Cognitive Framework
Introduction
Cognitive Linguistics
Commitments
Assumptions
Cognitive Grammar
Grammatical Claims
Semantic Claims
Cognitive Stylistics
The Triangle
The Writer
The Reader
The Text
Tenets
Benefits
Creativity
Characteristics
Significance
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 4: The Idealization Theory
Introduction
The Idealization Theory
Essence
Premises
Advantages
Cognitive Models
The Billiard-Ball Model
Transitivity
Resultativity
The Stage Model
Extraposition
Pronominality
The Canonical-Event Model
Raising
Voice
The Reference-Point Model
Possession
Expletive
The Reality Model
Tense
Complementation
The Force-Dynamics Model
Modality
Causation
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 5: The Contextualization Theory
Introduction
The Contextualization Theory
Essence
Premises
Advantages
Deixis
Exophora
Personal Deixis
Spatial Deixis
Demonstratives
Adverbs of Place
Temporal Deixis
Time Adverbs
Verb Tenses
Social Deixis
Vocatives
Honorifics
Discourse Deixis
Endophora
Anaphora
Cataphora
Deictic Shift
Essence
Advantages
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 6: The Configuration Theory
Introduction
The Domain Theory
Essence
Premises
Advantages
Domains of Stylistic Devices
The Domain of Phonology
The Domain of Morphology
The Domain of Graphology
The Domain of Lexicology
The Domain of Syntax
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 7: The Experientialism Theory
Introduction
The Experientialism Theory
Essence
Premises
Advantages
Forms of Conceptual Structure
Metaphor
Structural Metaphor
Orientational Metaphor
Ontological Metaphor
Metonymy
Relational Metonymy
Antonomastic Metonymy
Conventional Metonymy
Image Schema
Container Image Schema
Path Image Schema
Scale Image Schema
Mental Spaces
Indefinite Reference
Definite Reference
Conditionality
Blending
Morphological Blends
Grammatical Blends
Counterfactuality
Summary
Further Reading
References
Chapter 8: The Conceptualization Theory
Introduction
The Construal Theory
Essence
Premises
Advantages
Dimensions of Construal
Prominence
Profiling
Trajector-Landmark Alignment
Salience
Focusing
Foreground-Background
Scope
Perspective
Vantage Point
Viewing Arrangement
Subjectivity
Objectivity
Dynamicity
Summary
Further Reading
References
Epilogue
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
General Conclusions
Specific Conclusions
Index
