TY - BOOK ID - 15792545 TI - Cognitive grammar in contemporary fiction PY - 2017 VL - 26 SN - 9789027234155 9027234159 9789027265562 9027265569 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - Discourse analysis, Literary. KW - Creativity (Linguistics) KW - Stylists. KW - Creative ability (Linguistics) KW - Linguistic creativity KW - Competence and performance (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Literary discourse analysis KW - Rhetoric KW - Literary style KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Grammar KW - Fiction KW - Psychological study of literature KW - Cognitive grammar KW - Discourse analysis, Literary KW - Stylists UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15792545 AB - This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and mind-modelling, amongst others), the volume scales up central Cognitive Grammar concepts (such as construal, grounding, the reference point model and action chains) in order to explore the attenuation of experience - and how it is simulated - in literary reading. In particular, it considers a range of contemporary texts by Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McEwan and Paul Auster. This application builds upon previous work that adopts Cognitive Grammar for literary analysis and provides the first extended account of Cognitive Grammar in contemporary fiction. ER -