Texts and Minds: Papers in Cognitive Poetics and Rhetoric

Texts and Minds: Papers in Cognitive Poetics and Rhetoric
ISBN-10
3631622236
ISBN-13
9783631622230
Category
Cognition in literature
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Lodz Studies in Language
Author
Alina Kwiatkowska

Description

The twenty-two papers in this collection represent various cognitively-oriented approaches to the study of literary and persuasive texts. Their authors include both linguists and literary scholars, united by their interest in exploring the mental processes accompanying the creative production of meanings. Some of the papers, grouped into two broad sections - Cognitive approaches to literary thought and Aspects of cognitive rhetoric - offer new theoretical insights, and others focus on more specific aspects of verbal creativity, zooming in on concrete novels, poems, speeches and media texts. The variety of research interests and points of departure, of the subjects and materials chosen for analysis, but also of the employed methods of research shows that the developing field of cognitive poetics/rhetoric is able to accommodate a multitude of perspectives.

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