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The Language of Stories - A Cognitive Approach (Hardcover, New)
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The Language of Stories - A Cognitive Approach (Hardcover, New)
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How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create
meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a
cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and
fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing
the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative
interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as
linguistic artifacts, describing the processes which drive the
emergence of literary meaning. If a text means something to
someone, she argues, there have to be linguistic phenomena that
make it possible. Drawing on blending theory and construction
grammar, the book focuses its linguistic lens on the concepts of
the narrator and the story, and defines narrative viewpoint in a
new way. The examples come from a wide spectrum of texts, primarily
novels and drama, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Margaret
Atwood, Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Jan Potocki and Mikhail Bulgakov.
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