Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. — vii, 560 pages. — (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics). — ISBN 978-3-11-020560-2.The present volume is primarily intended to promote dialogue between Cognitive Linguistics (as a special branch of cognitive science) and literary studies, although this “core dialogue” will be supplemented with approaches from other cognitive literary fields. The selection of chapters for this volume reflects a combined objective. First, studies were solicited that address key issues in both Cognitive Linguistics and literary studies. Topics relevant for poeticians include the construction of (text) worlds, character(ization), narrative perspective, distancing discourse (including irony), humour, emotion, poetic imagery, and others. Most of these issues are approached by applying cognitive linguistic concepts and insights, in an attempt to explore more systematically their explanatory potential for cognitive poetics.Story
Text worlds
The way in which text worlds are furnished: response to Elena Semino’s Text Worlds
Cognitive approaches to narrative analysis
Situating cognitive approaches to narrative analysis (commentary to Herman)
Reflections on a cognitive stylistic approach to characterization
Comments on Culpeper
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Minding: feeling, form, and meaning in the creation of poetic iconicity
From linguistic form to conceptual structure in five steps: analyzing metaphor in poetry
Common foundations of metaphor and iconicity (commentary to Freeman and Steen)
Metaphor and figure-ground relationship: comparisons from poetry, music, and the visual arts
Hiding in plain sight: figure-ground reversals in humour (commentary to Tsur)
Stance
Deconstructing verbal humour with Construction Grammar
A commentary on Antonopoulou and Nikiforidou
Judging distances: mental spaces, distance, and viewpoint in literary discourse
The event that built a distanced space (commentary to Dancygier and Vandelanotte)
Discourse, context, and cognition (rebuttal to Vandaele)
Does an “ironic situation” favor an ironic interpretation? Commentary on ‘Does an ironic situation favour an ironic interpretation?
A reply to Albert Katz’s commentary
Commentary on Giora et al. – from a philosophical viewpoint
A reply to Edmond Wright’s commentaryCritique
How cognitive is cognitive poetics? Adding a symbolic approach to the embodied one
Incorporated but not embodied? (commentary to Louwerse and Van Peer)
Incorporated means symbolic and embodied (rebuttal to Geeraerts)
Epilogue. How (not) to advance toward the narrative mind
