Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction

Chloe Harrison | Coventry University

This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discoursegrammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic applicationoffers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text WorldTheory, 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, JonathanSafran 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.

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